George R Mastroianni
Biographic Data
| ID | 4076286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George R Mastroianni |
| GIVEN NAMES | George R |
| FAMILY NAME | Mastroianni |
| SIGNATURE | MASTROIANNI G R |
| AFFILIATIONS | United States Air Force Academy |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Obedience in perspective: Psychology and the Holocaust
Stanley Milgram’s explanation of the Holocaust in terms of the mechanism of obedience is too narrow. While obedience was one mechanism which contributed to the outcome, the murder of Jews and others was the work of people from a broad swath of German society, from economists who planned mass starvation to ordinary soldiers in the Wehrmacht, often acting without duress or apparent pressures to conform. Psychologists should not ask “why?” the Holoc…
Reframing Suicide in the Military
Since 2001, the suicide rate among members of our military has increased dramatically. This increase occurred despite improving behavioral health conditions for American forces serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. (1) The public response to this alarming and paradoxical trend largely has been to blame the usual suspects when bad things happen in our military: stress, the strain of intense operations and repetitive deployments, and the hardships of mi…
New wine, new bottles, or both? Social science contributions to thinking about and reorganizing for irregular warfare
The U.S. military is designed to take on a similarly constructed foreign military located across some line of demarcation. The goal of such conventional warfare is to incapacitate or annihilate the enemy military, whereupon victory is achieved – a task for which the U.S. military has no peer on the current world scene or the foreseeable future. However, the U.S.'s adversaries since the end of the Cold War have not been conventional forces, as evi…
The Deployment Experiences of Ft. Carson's Soldiers in Iraq: Thinking about and Training for Full-Spectrum Warfare
William Lind has argued that the U.S. military is improperly configured and trained to fight 'fourth-generation' wars, that is, ones in which one of the participants is a nonstate actor and where the strategy, tactics, and battlefield are unconventional. This position has slowly gained acceptance among U.S. Army and Marine commanders, who have struggled to adapt to fourth-generation realities on the ground in Iraq. Drawing on oral-history and foc…
Zimbardo's Apple
Kurt Gottschaldt's ambiguous relationship with national socialism
Kurt Gottschaldt (1902-1991) was active in psychological research in Germany throughout much of the past century. His best-known contributions relate to three "twin camps" he ran in the late 1930s. These twin camps were designed help assess the relative contributions of heredity and environment in determining the development of psychological attributes and behavior. Gottschaldt's conclusions favored a hereditarian interpretation of his results, a…
Psychological Contracts in two U.S. Combat Units in Iraq: What Happens when Expectations and Realities Diverge
U.S. soldiers deploying to Iraq in 2003 were told that the war was necessary to rid Saddam Hussein of weapons of mass destruction and had expected to fight a near-peer enemy using conventional tactics. Instead, they encountered a very different battlefield and, to date, no weapons of mass destruction have been found. This paper focuses on this apparent violation of soldiers' expectations. We analyze oral histories collected from two units of Ft. …
Apples, Barrels, and Abu Ghraib
Photographs of the abuse of detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq by military prison guards attracted worldwide attention and condemnation. As the scope and nature of the abuses became known, social psychologists offered explanations of the abuses that drew explanatory power from psychological studies (the Milgram obedience experiments and the Stanford Prison Study) that have become extremely well-known both within and outside psychology. Th…
Occupations, Cultures, and Leadership in the Army and Air Force
Most discussions of culture in the military services concern the relationship between military and civilian culture. Comparatively less interest has been shown in the cultural differences among the military services them selves, although there is considerable informal and anecdotal (often humorous) discussion of such differences within the services. In his 1989 book, The Masks of War, Carl Builder focused on "personality" differences among the se…
The Deployment Experiences of Ft. Carson's Soldiers in Iraq: Thinking about and Training for Full-Spectrum Warfare
William Lind has argued that the U.S. military is improperly configured and trained to fight 'fourth-generation' wars, that is, ones in which one of the participants is a nonstate actor and where the strategy, tactics, and battlefield are unconventional. This position has slowly gained acceptance among U.S. Army and Marine commanders, who have struggled to adapt to fourth-generation realities on the ground in Iraq. Drawing on oral-history and foc…
Psychological Contracts in two U.S. Combat Units in Iraq: What Happens when Expectations and Realities Diverge
U.S. soldiers deploying to Iraq in 2003 were told that the war was necessary to rid Saddam Hussein of weapons of mass destruction and had expected to fight a near-peer enemy using conventional tactics. Instead, they encountered a very different battlefield and, to date, no weapons of mass destruction have been found. This paper focuses on this apparent violation of soldiers' expectations. We analyze oral histories collected from two units of Ft. …
Occupations, Cultures, and Leadership in the Army and Air Force
Most discussions of culture in the military services concern the relationship between military and civilian culture. Comparatively less interest has been shown in the cultural differences among the military services them selves, although there is considerable informal and anecdotal (often humorous) discussion of such differences within the services. In his 1989 book, The Masks of War, Carl Builder focused on "personality" differences among the se…
Kurt Gottschaldt's ambiguous relationship with national socialism
Kurt Gottschaldt (1902-1991) was active in psychological research in Germany throughout much of the past century. His best-known contributions relate to three "twin camps" he ran in the late 1930s. These twin camps were designed help assess the relative contributions of heredity and environment in determining the development of psychological attributes and behavior. Gottschaldt's conclusions favored a hereditarian interpretation of his results, a…
Psychological Contracts in two U.S. Combat Units in Iraq: What Happens when Expectations and Realities Diverge
U.S. soldiers deploying to Iraq in 2003 were told that the war was necessary to rid Saddam Hussein of weapons of mass destruction and had expected to fight a near-peer enemy using conventional tactics. Instead, they encountered a very different battlefield and, to date, no weapons of mass destruction have been found. This paper focuses on this apparent violation of soldiers' expectations. We analyze oral histories collected from two units of Ft. …
Apples, Barrels, and Abu Ghraib
Photographs of the abuse of detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq by military prison guards attracted worldwide attention and condemnation. As the scope and nature of the abuses became known, social psychologists offered explanations of the abuses that drew explanatory power from psychological studies (the Milgram obedience experiments and the Stanford Prison Study) that have become extremely well-known both within and outside psychology. Th…
Zimbardo's Apple
New wine, new bottles, or both? Social science contributions to thinking about and reorganizing for irregular warfare
The U.S. military is designed to take on a similarly constructed foreign military located across some line of demarcation. The goal of such conventional warfare is to incapacitate or annihilate the enemy military, whereupon victory is achieved – a task for which the U.S. military has no peer on the current world scene or the foreseeable future. However, the U.S.'s adversaries since the end of the Cold War have not been conventional forces, as evi…
The Deployment Experiences of Ft. Carson's Soldiers in Iraq: Thinking about and Training for Full-Spectrum Warfare
William Lind has argued that the U.S. military is improperly configured and trained to fight 'fourth-generation' wars, that is, ones in which one of the participants is a nonstate actor and where the strategy, tactics, and battlefield are unconventional. This position has slowly gained acceptance among U.S. Army and Marine commanders, who have struggled to adapt to fourth-generation realities on the ground in Iraq. Drawing on oral-history and foc…
Reframing Suicide in the Military
Since 2001, the suicide rate among members of our military has increased dramatically. This increase occurred despite improving behavioral health conditions for American forces serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. (1) The public response to this alarming and paradoxical trend largely has been to blame the usual suspects when bad things happen in our military: stress, the strain of intense operations and repetitive deployments, and the hardships of mi…
Obedience in perspective: Psychology and the Holocaust
Stanley Milgram’s explanation of the Holocaust in terms of the mechanism of obedience is too narrow. While obedience was one mechanism which contributed to the outcome, the murder of Jews and others was the work of people from a broad swath of German society, from economists who planned mass starvation to ordinary soldiers in the Wehrmacht, often acting without duress or apparent pressures to conform. Psychologists should not ask “why?” the Holoc…
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