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Addiction—the thematic malady for our society—entails every type of psychological and societal problem.
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The Same Thing that Makes Us Love Makes Us Hate - The "Us-Them" Quiz

By Stanton Peele on March 9, 2009 in Addiction in Society

A TV program staged a scene in which a woman in Middle Eastern garb tried to buy bread in a store, and the clerk berated her. Most people ignored the scene, and a few joined the clerk in attacking the woman. Only one man actively stood up for her. Are you any better than the rest of those people? Take the "Us-Them" quiz and see.

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Stanton Peele, Ph.D., J.D.

Stanton Peele, Ph.D., J.D., has been researching and treating addiction since he wrote Love and Addiction (1975). He also wrote 7 Tools to Beat Addiction.

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