The Science of Hate with Matthew Williams

The Innovation Show

Are our brains wired to hate? Is social media to blame for an increase in hateful abuse? What can we do with hate on the rise to turn the tide? Drawing on twenty years of pioneering research - as well as his own experience as a hate-crime victim - our guest, a world-renowned criminologist explores one of the pressing issues of our age. We welcome the author of The Science of Hate: How prejudice becomes hate and what we can do to stop it, Professor Matt Williams Find Matt here: https://hatelab.net 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:12 Matt’s Hate Crime Origin Story 00:11:15 The Benefit of Criminology as an Intersectional Discipline 00:16:12 Criminology is Based on a study of Prejudices 00:26:35 Intergroup Hate, A Hierarchy of Hatred 00:34:29 Gordon Alport and Push v Pull Prejudice 00:45:43 Statistics of Hate