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Annotated bibliography

Research question: How does the ideas of good vs evil in criminals like Al Capone, relate to
signs of aggression and prosociality in their life?

Webster, R. J., & Saucier, D. A. (2017). Angels everywhere? how beliefs in pure evil and pure good
predict perceptions of heroic behavior. Personality and Individual Differences, 104, 387-392.
doi:10.1016/j.paid.2016.08.037
In this article the researchers are trying to determine how people perceive different types of
heroes who perform heroic acts. They develop a controlled experiment where they survey a
group of college students to review the same situation twice. The situation is a person performing
a heroic act. At the end of each situation they give background on the hero. In the first situation
they state that the hero was arrogant and rude. In the second situation they describe the hero as a
honest and humble person. They then asked who the students would rather give an award to.
Overwhelmingly most students chose the humble hero. The researchers concluded that “In sum,
the current study confirmed that it does matter how and why “heroes”(Webster). Some of the
new keywords I found when reading the article was heroism, attributes, and altruism.

Amodio, D. M. (2014). The neuroscience of prejudice and stereotyping. Nature Reviews.


Neuroscience, 15(10), 670- 682. doi:10.1038/nrn3800
In this article Amodio describes in depth how the human mind unknowingly stereotypes and
judges people even if the person believes that they are not judging the person. He argues that our
brain has been trained through evolution to group people together into certain groups
characterized by many different factors including looks and religion. He also argues that
everyone does this, and that no one is truly unbiased. Amodio concludes by saying, “ Despite
global increases in diversity, social prejudices continue to fuel intergroup conflict, disparities and
discrimination”(Amodio 1). Some new keywords I came across in the article were religion,
neuroscience, perception, and biased.

Hoffman, D. (1995). Mr. capone: The Real—and Complete—Story of al capone. by robert J.


schoenberg. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 11(1), 89-91.
doi:10.1177/104398629501100108
In this article Hoffman goes into depth and describes the life of the notorious gangster Al
Capone. He goes into depth describing Capone’s rise in the organized crime ranks. He also goes
into depth continuously quoting a biography of Al Capone written by Robert “Shoenberg. He
compliments and criticizes Shoenberg’s writing style in the book. He evaluates if it is a reputable
source of Capone’s life. He concludes the article by saying, “ For anyone writing about the past,
Schoenberg sets a high standard for scholarship”(Hoffman 91). I came across many different
keywords to add to my project which were Prohibition and motivations.
Gunderman, Richard B., MD, PhD. (2012). prejudice. Journal of the American College of
Radiology, 9(12), 854-855. doi:10.1016/j.jacr.2012.04.009
In this article the author goes very in depth about what prejudice really is and how it came to be.
He lists multiple Vignettes to help show that everyone is complicit in prejudices even if they
don't think they are. He states that the main problem with prejudice is that even when we are
being taught not to we still,”Judge a book by its cover.” he says that when we first meet someone
we still unknowingly judge them by their appearance. He says while this may be god in
gathering basic information about people it does not give us the whole picture about who they
really are. Gunderman concludes by stating that “When faced with an important decision
between people, we should focus less on the categories to which they belong and more on what
they have done, who they are, and what they are capable of contributing” (Gunderman 855).
Some new keywords I found were Vignette and fate.

Harris, J. C. (2014). Images of modern evil: Albert tucker. JAMA Psychiatry, 71(9), 982-983.
doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.2753
In this article Harris discusses the career of famous Australian artist Albert Tucker. He discusses
how Tucker became extremely emotionally traumatized by his service in World War II, and the
horrors he saw while serving. Harris explains that a large collection of Tucker’s paintings are
based off of scenes he witnessed while serving in the war. Harris makes an observation about
Tucker’s paintings stating, “These paintings illustrate how universal fears and desires shattered
traditional values and undermined social and moral stability in urban Australia.” He states how
affected Tucker was because of his service in the world, and how this affected him the rest of his
life. Harris concludes the article by saying, “It was a formative development in Tucker’s career
because it allowed him to integrate his humanistic, psychological, and mythological
interests”(Harris 2). I found some new keywords in the article that include PTSD and drive.

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