... paranoid about certain things, you could conclude that he or she has hateful feelings towards people. One reason for thinking that hate and paranoia do share a common mechanism is that people with paranoid personality disorders are very mistrustful, and are convinced that others are out to exploit them (Fenigstein & Vanable, 1992). These Hate/Paranoia 2 suspicions they have are due to misinterpreting harmless events as personally threatening (Fenigstein & Vanable, 1992). Paranoia connected to hate in this sense, is that hate is most often elicited by the perception that a person had been badly treated, unsupported, or humiliated (Fitness & Fletcher, 1993). If we are able to link hate to paranoia then we can hopefully finds ways to prevent anyone from getting hurt because of hatred. Violence is a very commonly associated with hate (Staub, 1999). There is very little research that has been done testing hate, and its ...

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