ABSTRACT
Excerpted from a paper presented at the Fourth Annual Briefing on the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, Inc., New York City, May 24-25, 1971; this selection is essentially a summary of the work reported in M. D. Blumenthal, R. L. Kahn, F. M. Andrews, and K. B. Head, Justifying Violence: Attitudes of American Men (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Institute for Social Research, 1972). Monica D. Blumenthal is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan and a program director at the Survey Research Center of the Institute for Social Research. Robert L. Kahn is Professor of Psychology and director of the Survey Research Center. Frank M. Andrews is Associate Professor of Psychology and a program director at the Center. Kindra B. Head is a graduate student in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan.
