Cruelty as the "medicine" treating an unbalance in the development of the brain's hemispheres.
A neurophysiological cause for the cruelty expressed by the Nazis during the Holocaust is suggested, as well as certain tests for the adult population intended to reveal such a social danger. The cause is seen as an unbalance in the development of the brain's hemispheres. It is assumed that this unbalance can occur in a nation which is under an extremely intensive stress of intellectual (cultural) development, which might be, for example, because of technological competition between nations/countries. Cruelness is purposed to prevent (further) development of the right hemisphere.
Gluskin
Emanuel
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Electrical Engineering Department, Academic Technological Institute, 52 Golomb St., Holon, 58102, Israel. gluskin@ee.bgu.ac.il
D001921:Brain / Q000254:growth & development*; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D005858:Germany; D017767:Holocaust / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D028683:National Socialism; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000473:pathology; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology*