Evil in the Modern World

Laura Dryjanska is Associate Professor at Rosemead School of Psychology of Biola University in Southern California, and the Program Director of the Master of Science in Positive Organizational Psychology. She obtained a PhD in Social Representations and Communication in 2012 from Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). Laura was a scientific coordinator of the course in Organizational Psychology at Tuscia University in Italy in 2012, main lecturer in Organizational Psychology at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland in 2016, and a Post-Doctoral fellow at Sapienza since 2013 until 2017. Born in Poland, she is a Polish and Italian citizen, fluent in five languages. Laura is a member of the American Psychological Association (and its various divisions, including the Society of Industrial-Organizational Psychology and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues), European Association of Social Psychology, and Rotary International.Giorgio Pacifici is a sociologist and an essayist of European formation. His principal interest as a sociologist is the metamorphosis of European society in our era. He has been presided over non-profit institutions in cultural and technological fields. Currently, he is president of ARCO - Institute for Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research in Italy. He has been editor of more than 40 volumes and he published more than 100 book essays and journal articles. He has been a university professor and has done research in different countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia.

• - Introduction: Complex Evil. - Evil and Pain: A Multi-modal View to Approach Pain-Related Conditions. - Alzheimer’s Disease, a Personal and Family Tragedy: The Absolute Evil?. - Atonement, Evil and Sexual Abuse. - The Evil of the Lack of Dignity: An Analysis of the Intercultural Homeomorphic Equivalence(s). - Forced Migration, Modern Slavery, and the Evil of Shattered Dreams. - The Evil and the Systems of Law. - Political Victimage Ritual and Evil. - Neurocultural Identities and the Problem of Human Violence. - “So-called Evil”: Aggression in Competitive Sports in the Mirror of Social Expectations. - European Society, Evil, and Technologies. - After the Bit Bang: The Evil in the Digital Universe?. - Live to Do Evil. - Afterword: The Obscure Component.