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View article: The Told Story of the Gaza War
The Told Story of the Gaza War Open
All violent conflicts and wars involve at least two competing narratives. This is also the case for the conflict commonly referred to as the Gaza War, which began on October 7, 2023, and lasted 471 days until the first phase of the ceasefi…
View article: Daniel Bar‐Tal, on the Israeli‐Palestinian conflict, before and after October 7, 2023: In conversation with James Liu and Veronica Hopner
Daniel Bar‐Tal, on the Israeli‐Palestinian conflict, before and after October 7, 2023: In conversation with James Liu and Veronica Hopner Open
The Israel‐Palestinian conflict is one of the most well‐known and polarizing issues that has impacts on societies, and institutions beyond Israel, and Palestine. This interview with prominent social scientist Daniel Bar‐Tal, Professor Emer…
View article: From acceptance to change: The role of acceptance in the effectiveness of the Informative Process Model for conflict resolution
From acceptance to change: The role of acceptance in the effectiveness of the Informative Process Model for conflict resolution Open
The Informative Process Model (IPM) proposes an intervention to facilitate change in conflict‐supporting narratives in protracted conflicts. These narratives develop to help societies cope with conflict; but over time, they turn into barri…
View article: The paradoxical brain: paradoxes impact conflict perspectives through increased neural alignment
The paradoxical brain: paradoxes impact conflict perspectives through increased neural alignment Open
Mental perspectives can sometimes be changed by psychological interventions. For instance, when applied in the context of intergroup conflicts, interventions, such as the paradoxical thinking intervention, may unfreeze ingrained negative o…
View article: “We’re tolerant and they’re prejudiced”: Same-sex marriage supporters’ and opponents’ perceptions of supportive and oppositional claims
“We’re tolerant and they’re prejudiced”: Same-sex marriage supporters’ and opponents’ perceptions of supportive and oppositional claims Open
The current research examined the proposition that debates over same-sex marriage are characterized, at least in part, by conflicting understandings about what is and is not prejudiced, normative and true. Toward this end, Australians’ (N …
View article: Gender-based in-group social influence can lead women to view a hostile sexist attitude as less prejudiced and more true
Gender-based in-group social influence can lead women to view a hostile sexist attitude as less prejudiced and more true Open
Social influence processes by which women come to judge a hostile sexist attitude as relatively true and unprejudiced were examined. Based upon status characteristics theory, women's judgments were expected to be more strongly influenced b…
View article: Index
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Providing a novel multi-disciplinary theorization of memory politics, this insightful Handbook brings varied literatures into a focused dialogue on the ways in which the past is remembered and how these influence transnational, interstate,…
View article: Pandemic and prejudice: Revisiting Bogardus’s social distance concept in a time of COVID-19
Pandemic and prejudice: Revisiting Bogardus’s social distance concept in a time of COVID-19 Open
This study examined when the realistic threat of COVID-19 leads to prejudicial social distancing. American participants reported social distancing preferences from Chinese or Italian people (out-group target) after viewing increasing or de…
View article: IS A CONFEDERATION BETWEEN ISRAEL AND PALESTINE WITH JORDAN A VIABLE ARRANGEMENT?
IS A CONFEDERATION BETWEEN ISRAEL AND PALESTINE WITH JORDAN A VIABLE ARRANGEMENT? Open
The present article considers the viability of a confederation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority with Jordan as a realistic solution to the ongoing conflict between Israeli Jews and Palestinians. It presents the background and t…
View article: The Informative Process Model as a New Intervention for Attitude Change in Intractable Conflicts: Theory and Empirical Evidence
The Informative Process Model as a New Intervention for Attitude Change in Intractable Conflicts: Theory and Empirical Evidence Open
Peacemaking is especially challenging in situations of intractable conflict. Collective narratives in this context contribute to coping with challenges societies face, but also fuel conflict continuation. We introduce the Informative Proce…
View article: “Side by side”: Comparing how Israeli secular and religious mothers read a story about the <scp>Israeli‐Palestinian</scp> conflict to young children
“Side by side”: Comparing how Israeli secular and religious mothers read a story about the <span>Israeli‐Palestinian</span> conflict to young children Open
The Israeli‐Palestinian conflict has deleterious effects on children. Our research observed mothers' conversations with their 5‐7‐year‐old children about the conflict during shared book reading (SBR) of a fiction book, indirectly depicting…
View article: Lay perceptions of modern prejudice toward “White” and “Asian” people: It matters who said it, whom it's about, and who's judging
Lay perceptions of modern prejudice toward “White” and “Asian” people: It matters who said it, whom it's about, and who's judging Open
We propose that part of the problem in combatting prejudice lies in people's dynamic understandings of what prejudice is. To examine this, we asked participants to rate the degree to which they perceived specific group‐relevant attitudes a…
View article: Current and Future Costs of Intractable Conflicts—Can They Create Attitude Change?
Current and Future Costs of Intractable Conflicts—Can They Create Attitude Change? Open
Members of societies involved in an intractable conflict usually consider costs that stem from the continuation of the conflict as unavoidable and even justify for their collective existence. This perception is well-anchored in widely shar…
View article: When are intergroup attitudes judged as free speech and when as prejudice? A social identity analysis of attitudes towards immigrants
When are intergroup attitudes judged as free speech and when as prejudice? A social identity analysis of attitudes towards immigrants Open
Although anti‐immigrant attitudes continue to be expressed around the world, identifying these attitudes as prejudice, truth or free speech remains contested. This contestation occurs, in part, because of the absence of consensually agreed…
View article: The paradoxical thinking ‘sweet spot’: The role of recipients’ latitude of rejection in the effectiveness of paradoxical thinking messages targeting anti-refugee attitudes in Israel
The paradoxical thinking ‘sweet spot’: The role of recipients’ latitude of rejection in the effectiveness of paradoxical thinking messages targeting anti-refugee attitudes in Israel Open
The current research examined whether for a message that is based on the paradoxical thinking principles—i.e., providing extreme, exaggerated, or even absurd views, that are congruent with the held views of the message recipients—to be eff…
View article: Supplementary materials to: The paradoxical thinking ‘sweet spot’: The role of recipients’ latitude of rejection in the effectiveness of paradoxical thinking messages targeting anti-refugee attitudes in Israel
Supplementary materials to: The paradoxical thinking ‘sweet spot’: The role of recipients’ latitude of rejection in the effectiveness of paradoxical thinking messages targeting anti-refugee attitudes in Israel Open
Supplementary materials to: Hameiri, B., Idan, O., Nabet, E., Bar-Tal, D., & Halperin, E. (2020). The paradoxical thinking ‘sweet spot’: The role of recipients’ latitude of rejection in the effectiveness of paradoxical thinking messages ta…
View article: Voluntary silence: Israeli media self-censorship during the Second Lebanon War
Voluntary silence: Israeli media self-censorship during the Second Lebanon War Open
This article describes the characteristics of self-censorship in general, specifically in mass media, with regard to narratives of political violence, including motivations for and effects of practicing self-censorship. It first presents a…
View article: Prejudice is about Collective Values, not a Biased Psychological System
Prejudice is about Collective Values, not a Biased Psychological System Open
What is striking, too, is that each respondent's own social category was clearly cognitively salient in each instance. [...]in Example 8, it is unclear why or how racial/ethnic background was relevant given the instance described; the auth…
View article: When are anti‐fat attitudes understood as prejudice versus truth? An experimental study of social influence effects
When are anti‐fat attitudes understood as prejudice versus truth? An experimental study of social influence effects Open
Summary Background/Objectives If people who hold anti‐fat attitudes believe these attitudes to be true, then anti‐prejudice appeals are likely to be unsuccessful, if only because the targets will not see their attitudes as in need of chang…
View article: Paradoxical Thinking Interventions: A Paradigm for Societal Change
Paradoxical Thinking Interventions: A Paradigm for Societal Change Open
Social problems such as intergroup conflicts, prejudice, and discrimination have a significant effect on the world's population. Often, to facilitate constructive solutions to these problems, fundamental attitude change is needed. However,…
View article: Self-censorship orientation: Scale development, correlates and outcomes
Self-censorship orientation: Scale development, correlates and outcomes Open
Self-censorship is defined as intentionally and voluntarily withholding information from others in absence of formal obstacles. We conducted cross-sectional and longitudinal research to develop a quantitative measure of individuals’ Self-C…
View article: When ideology meets conflict-related content: Influences on emotion generation and regulation.
When ideology meets conflict-related content: Influences on emotion generation and regulation. Open
Do rightists and leftists experience information about suffering and harm with differing emotional intensities, depending on the identity of target depicted? Do they consequently choose differently how to regulate or cope with these emotio…
View article: Moderating attitudes in times of violence through paradoxical thinking intervention
Moderating attitudes in times of violence through paradoxical thinking intervention Open
Significance Societies involved in intractable conflicts are typically polarized in their views on how to resolve the conflict. Hawkish members of society adhere to an uncompromising and nonconciliatory ideology. Therefore, interventions t…