Individual and collective violence operate through separate psychological mechanisms

Evidence

[W]hat is at stake here is not an attempt to explain individual violence that finds its roots in personal passions, desires, hate, greed. On the contrary, it is significant that the mechanisms of the two kinds of violent action (individual and group) are different and manifest themselves differently in the same individuals, who may have a radically different propensity to have recourse to group versus individual violence. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 382

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes individual from group violence as requiring separate explanations, adding nuance to how collective racial violence is conceptualized.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 382
• XREF: connects to: Implosive violence of assembled masses differs fundamentally from explosive violence — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 230; Ethnoreligious violence stems from human social psychology, not Buddhism’s tenets — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 86; Group violence against subgroups grows from frustrated basic human needs seeking fulfillment — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 79 (+2 more)