A Rose by Any Other Name? A Subtle Linguistic Cue Impacts Anger and Corresponding Policy Support in Intractable Conflict

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 972-983 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orly Idan ◽  
Eran Halperin ◽  
Boaz Hameiri ◽  
Michal Reifen Tagar
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
Policy Preferences ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Intergroup Conflict ◽  
Psycholinguistic Research ◽  
Intractable Conflict

Given the central role of anger in shaping adversarial policy preferences in the context of intergroup conflict, its reduction may promote conflict resolution. In the current work, we drew on psycholinguistic research on the role of language in generating emotions to explore a novel, extremely subtle means of intervention. Specifically, we hypothesized that phrasing conflict-relevant policies in noun form (vs. verb form) would reduce anger and impact policy support correspondingly. Results across three experimental studies in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict supported these expectations for both support for concessions (Studies 1–3) and retaliatory policies (Study 3), with reduction in anger mediating the salutary impact of noun form (vs. verb form) on policy support. These results expand our understanding of the influence of language on emotions and policies in the context of conflict and have applied relevance for conflict-resolution efforts.

scholarly journals “Under the Radar”: How is the Jewish–Arab Conflict Reflected in Internal Jewish Dialogue?

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Lipaz Shamoa-Nir
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Ethnic Conflict ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Intergroup Conflict ◽  
Identity Exploration ◽  
Exploration Process ◽  
Divided Societies ◽  
Arab Students

This study explores the role of intergroup conflict in the identity exploration process among 83 Jewish participants in a dialogue in a multicultural college in Israel. Thematic analysis has shown that the behavior of most of the participants has been affected by the Jewish–Arab conflict as follows: they centered on internal commonalities among Jewish subgroups; they neither engaged in conflict among Jewish subgroups nor explored their Jewish identities, and they expressed confusion regarding who the out-group was: the Jewish subgroups’ members or the Arab students in the college. These findings expand the knowledge about the identity exploration process in a social context of religious–ethnic conflict and may pose a practical contribution to the field of intergroup dialogues and conflict resolution in divided societies.   

scholarly journals Support for Conciliatory Policies in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Role of Different Modes of Identification and Territorial Ownership Perceptions

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora Storz ◽  
Borja Martinović ◽  
Nimrod Rosler
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Relevant Dimension ◽  
Intergroup Conflict ◽  
Conflict Settings ◽  
Ingroup Identification ◽  
People’S Attitudes

Understanding people’s attitudes toward conciliatory policies in territorial interethnic conflicts is important for a peaceful conflict resolution. We argue that ingroup identification in combination with the largely understudied territorial ownership perceptions can help us explain attitudes toward conciliatory policies. We consider two different aspects of ingroup identification—attachment to one’s ethnic ingroup as well as ingroup superiority. Furthermore, we suggest that perceptions of ingroup and outgroup ownership of the territory can serve as important mechanisms that link the different forms of ingroup identification with conciliatory policies. In the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, among Israeli Jews (N = 1,268), we found that ingroup superiority, but not attachment, was negatively related to conciliatory policies. This relationship was explained by lower outgroup (but not by higher ingroup) ownership perceptions of the territory. Our findings highlight the relevance of studying ingroup superiority as a particularly relevant dimension of identification that represents a barrier to acknowledging outgroup’s territorial ownership, and is thus indirectly related to less support for conciliatory policies in intergroup conflict settings.

scholarly journals A New Appraisal-Based Framework Underlying Hope in Conflict Resolution

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 208-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Smadar Cohen-Chen ◽  
Richard J. Crisp ◽  
Eran Halperin
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Implicit Theories ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Intergroup Conflict ◽  
Appraisal Theory ◽  
Intractable Conflict ◽  
Appraisal Theory Of Emotions ◽  
Resolution Processes

Hope is a positive emotion that plays a pivotal role in intractable conflicts and conflict resolution processes by inducing conciliatory attitudes for peace. As a catalyser for conflict resolution, it is important to further understand hope in such contexts. In this article we present a novel framework for understanding hope in contexts of intergroup conflict. Utilizing appraisal theory of emotions and heavily relying on the implicit theories framework, we describe three targets upon which hope appraisals focus in intractable conflict—the conflict, the outgroup, and the ingroup. Next, we describe the importance of developing ways to experimentally induce hope, and utilize the appraisal-target framework to describe and classify existing and potential interventions for inducing hope in intractable conflict resolution.

The Influence of Specific Risk Perceptions on Public Policy Support

2015 ◽  
Vol 658 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Stoutenborough ◽  
Arnold Vedlitz ◽  
Xinsheng Liu
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
Policy Preferences ◽  
Public Preferences ◽  
Specific Risk ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

A great deal of research has been dedicated to understanding the relationship of public preferences to public policy. Much of this literature, though, does not account for risk perception, an important characteristic that affects individuals’ preferences. In terms of policy, those who perceive high risk in association with a particular issue should be more likely to oppose policies that would increase that risk, and, conversely, support policies that would decrease this risk. In this article, we examine the role of specific risk perceptions related to nuclear, coal, and renewable sources of energy on related policy preferences. Controlling for the influence of knowledge and several specific attitudinal indicators, we find that risk perceptions are strong predictors of energy policy preferences.

scholarly journals Evidence of Positive Intergroup Perceptions About the Role of Religious Belief in an Intractable Conflict

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crystal Shackleford ◽  
Michael H. Pasek ◽  
ALLON VISHKIN ◽  
Jeremy Ginges
Keyword(s):  
Religious Belief ◽  
The Other ◽  
Intergroup Conflict ◽  
Independent Source ◽  
Intractable Conflict ◽  
Belief In God ◽  
Research Challenges ◽  
Negative Perceptions ◽  
Intergroup Perceptions

Diversity of religious belief and identity is widely believed to be a source of intergroup conflict. Yet, emerging research challenges the notion that belief in God promotes parochialism. Because inaccurate and negative intergroup perceptions often underlay conflict, we theorized that negative perceptions about outgroup members’ religious beliefs may represent an independent source of discord. Contrary to this prediction, three preregistered experiments demonstrate that religious Muslim Palestinians and Jewish Israelis believe that the other understands their God to be an entity that encourages intergroup prosociality and benevolence. Muslim Palestinians (Study 1, N = 314) and Jewish Israelis (Study 2, N = 394) predicted outgroup members would give more money in intergroup contexts when asked to think about God. Study 3 (N = 373) extends this to a more conflict-adjacent domain; Jewish Israelis predicted that Muslim Palestinians believed God would prefer them to value the lives of Jews and Muslims more equally.

scholarly journals Cruelty and indifference are the point: Preference for hierarchy is related to support for policies that harm marginalized groups through feeling both less empathy and more schadenfreude

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sa-kiera Tiarra Jolynn Hudson ◽  
Mina Cikara ◽  
Jim Sidanius
Keyword(s):  
Social Dominance ◽  
Social Dominance Orientation ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
Intergroup Conflict ◽  
Social Emotions ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Initial Support

Individuals who have relatively higher levels of social dominance orientation (SDO; Ho et al., 2015) are more likely to support policies and engage in behaviors that harm marginalized groups through both passive (e.g., neglect) and active (e.g., subjugation) means. While SDO is positioned as a relevant antecedent to outcomes regarding intergroup conflict, the mechanisms by which SDO impact group harm are underspecified. In this paper we investigate the social emotions of intergroup empathy and schadenfreude—the congruent negative and incongruent positive emotional reactions, respectively, a person has in response to the suffering of members from another social group—as key mediators between SDO and intergroup harm. More specifically, we test a model in which SDO leads to active harm primarily through feeling schadenfreude while SDO leads to passive harm primarily through not feeling empathy. In four pre-registered studies (N = 3,468), we show initial support for this model, as SDO’s associations with actively harmful policy support were more strongly mediated through schadenfreude than empathy, while SDO’s associations with passively harmful policy support were more strongly mediated through empathy than schadenfreude. We discuss the relevance of these findings to intergroup conflict interventions more broadly, as well as highlight the role of schadenfreude in motivating intergroup harm.

Exploring ourselves within intergroup conflict: The role of intragroup dialogue in promoting acceptance of collective narratives and willingness toward reconciliation.

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yael Ben David ◽  
Boaz Hameiri ◽  
Sharón Benheim ◽  
Becky Leshem ◽  
Anat Sarid ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intergroup Conflict ◽  
Collective Narratives

Calculation-and-experimental estimation of the role of the frequency ratio in changing the endurance at two-frequency deformation modes

2019 ◽  
Vol 85 (1(I)) ◽  
pp. 64-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. M. Gadenin
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Reduction Factor ◽  
Single Frequency ◽  
Cyclic Loads ◽  
Small Ratio ◽  
Harmonic Components ◽  
Deformation Modes

The cycle configuration at two-frequency loading regimes depends on the number of parameters including the absolute values of the frequencies and amplitudes of the low-frequency and high-frequency loads added during this mode, the ratio of their frequencies and amplitudes, as well as the phase shift between these harmonic components, the latter having a significant effect only with a small ratio of frequencies. Presence of such two-frequency regimes or service loading conditions for parts of machines and structures schematized by them can significantly reduce their endurance. Using the results of experimental studies of changes in the endurance of a two-frequency loading of specimens of cyclically stable, cyclically softened and cyclically hardened steels under rigid conditions we have shown that decrease in the endurance under the aforementioned conditions depends on the ratio of frequencies and amplitudes of operation low-frequency low-cycle and high-frequency vibration stresses, and, moreover, the higher the level of the ratios of amplitudes and frequencies of those stacked harmonic processes of loading the greater the effect. It is shown that estimation of such a decrease in the endurance compared to a single frequency loading equal in the total stress (strains) amplitudes can be carried out using an exponential expression coupling those endurances through a parameter (reduction factor) containing the ratio of frequencies and amplitudes of operation cyclic loads and characteristic of the material. The reduction is illustrated by a set of calculation-experimental curves on the corresponding diagrams for each of the considered types of materials and compared with the experimental data.

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