Goldhagen’s Holocaust study is fundamentally a social-psychological analysis

Evidence

In other words (although Goldhagen himself does not define his work in this way), his goal was to develop a social-psychological analysis of perpetrator behavior. In writing about the Holocaust, he focused on the kinds of issues with which contemporary social psychologists generally concern themselves. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 308

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Goldhagen’s theory reduces genocide to individual anti-Semitic attitudes driving behavior — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 312; The 1960s shifted Holocaust explanation from individual psychology to group social psychology — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 42; Holocaust social psychology requires both ideological attraction and conformity obedience — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 851 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Goldhagen claimed anti-Semitism alone but sufficiently explains the Holocaust at every level #responds-to (0.80) — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 314
• The 1960s shifted Holocaust explanation from individual psychology to group social psychology #expands (0.78) — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 42
• Holocaust social psychology requires both ideological attraction and conformity obedience #qualifies (0.72) — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 851
• Early Holocaust research blamed individual authoritarian personalities, not social processes #complicates (0.70) — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 40