Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty

Who recommended it

1. 

   Steven Pinker Cognitive psychologist at Harvard University

   Explicit recommendation

   Picked in his Five Books interview — the psychology of perpetrators.

   The best books on the Decline of Violence, recommended by Steven Pinker↗ Interviewfivebooks.com Five Books · 7 Oct 2011 · checked 12 Nov 2026

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