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Monroe's insightful examination of these movingand disturbinginterviews underscores the significance of identity for moral choice.<br><br>Monroe finds that self-image and identityespecially the sense of self in relation to othersdetermine and delineate our choice options, not just morally but cognitively. She introduces the concept of moral salience to explain how we establish a critical psychological relationship with others, classifying individuals in need as \"people just like us\" or reducing them to strangers perceived as different, threatening, or even beyond the boundaries of our concern. Monroe explicates the psychological dehumanization that is a prerequisite for genocide and uses her knowledge of human behavior during the Holocaust to develop a broader theory of moral choice, one applicable to other forms of ethnic, religious, racial, and sectarian prejudice, aggression, and violence. 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