# Psychology of war


## Einstein and Freud on preventing a war... 1930s

- https://en.unesco.org/courier/may-1985/why-war-letter-albert-einstein-sigmund-freud

.... Because man has within him a lust for hatred and destruction. In normal times this passion exists in a latent state, it emerges only in unusual circumstances; but it is a comparatively easy task to call it into play and raise it to the power of a collective psychosis

... But my insistence on what is the most typical, most cruel and extravagant form of conflict between man and man was deliberate, for here we have the best occasion of discovering ways and means to render all armed conflicts impossible

- https://en.unesco.org/courier/marzo-1993/why-war-letter-freud-einstein

##- Robert Sapolsky

- [Robert Sapolsky on "us" vs "them" in military conflicts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk5RDy6xFJQ)
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- [Dr. Robert Sapolsky: Science of Stress, Testosterone & Free Will | Huberman Lab Podcast 35](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtmwtjOoSYU)
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# Parents

* Crisis Time - T&M