Overview
Provides an in-depth understanding of Gandhi's philosophy and practice of nonviolence
Analyzes the success of Gandhian practice through the lens of modern scientific psychology
Demonstrates how Gandhi’s thinking and practice can be used to advance psychology and the field of nonviolence
Draws on the latest research in social neuroscience, psychometric measurement, social and cognitive psychology.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Gandhi
- Nonviolence
- social neuroscience
- Evolutionary Psychology
- Political Psychology
- Social Identity Theory
- cognitive psychology
- Passive Resistence
- Indian Psychology
- Integrative power
- Multidimensional Scale of Nonviolence (MSN)
- Indigenous Psychology
- social justice
- social protest
- test of non-violence (NVT)
- social-cognitive neuropsychology
- psychology of wisdom
- the Pacifism Scale
- models of nonviolence
- personality and individual differences
About this book
While, psychological science has focused on those participants that delivered electric shocks in Professor Stanley Milgram’s famous experiments, these books begin from the premise that we have neglected to fully explore why the other participants walked away. Building on emergent research in the psychology of self control and wisdom, the authors illustrate what Gandhi’s life and work offers to our understanding of these subjects who disobeyed and defied Milgram.
The authors analyze Gandhi’s actions and philosophy, as well as original interviews with his contemporaries, to elaborate a modern scientific psychology of nonviolence from the principles he enunciated and which were followed so successfully in his Satyagrahas. Gandhi, they argue, was a practical psychologist from whom we can derive a science of nonviolence which, as Volume 2 will illustrate, can be applied to almost every subfield of psychology, but particularly to those addressing the most urgent issues of the 21st century.
This book is the result of four decades of collaborative work between the authors. It marks a unique contribution to studies of both Gandhi and the current trends in psychological research that will appeal in particular to scholars of social change, peace studies and peace psychology, and, serve as an exemplar in teaching one of modern psychology’s hitherto neglected perspectives.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Rita Agrawal is Director and Professor at the Faculty of Management and Technology, Harish Chandra Post Graduate College, India. She is the author of five books, including Stress in Life and at Work (2001), and Psychology of Technology (2016 with Kool), and has been the recipient of both national and international awards.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gandhi and the Psychology of Nonviolence, Volume 1
Book Subtitle: Scientific Roots and Development
Authors: V. K. Kool, Rita Agrawal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56865-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56864-1Published: 07 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56867-2Published: 07 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56865-8Published: 06 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 335
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Psychology, general, Personality and Social Psychology, Neurosciences, International Relations, History of South Asia, History of Psychology