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Harnessing the power of group norms to improve children’s intergroup relationships.
In diverse societies, peaceful intergroup relationships are necessary. Using a minimal groups paradigm, we randomly assigned 188 ethnically diverse U.S. 4- and 5-year-olds to groups with different norms about intergroup relationships. Some were given positive norms (e.g., their ingroup talks, shares, and plays with the outgroup), others were given negative norms (e.g., their ingroup does not talk, share, or play with the outgroup), and others were given no norms. Children then participated in a live and unexpected intergroup interaction. Broadly, the descriptive norms affected children’s interactions with the outgroup me...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - December 30, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Embracing my jihad: An intersectional approach to understanding Muslim Filipino women activists’ construction of the self as agents of change.
Muslim women have always been at the forefront of peacebuilding yet continue to be rendered invisible by structures that perpetuate oppression. As growing research examines their agency amid conflict and injustice, there remains limited scholarship that brings to attention the social, historical, and political context shaping Muslim women’s diverse identities and subjectivities. This paper seeks to contribute to efforts nuancing the understanding of Muslim women’s agency by employing an intersectional approach to examine the contextualized power dynamics shaping their identity construction. We analyzed life stories of ...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - December 30, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Essentially subhuman: Psychological essentialism facilitates dehumanization.
Dehumanization has played a prominent role in myriad human atrocities, which inspired us to investigate its social–cognitive basis. Since dehumanization consists of perceiving another to lack a defining human essence, scholars have suggested the process is grounded in psychological essentialism, the belief that members of a group all share an underlying essence. Indeed, Americans’ essentialist thinking predicted their blatant dehumanization of various national outgroups (Study 1). After demonstrating this relationship, we attempted to mitigate dehumanization by reducing the tendency to think in an essentialist manner. ...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - November 11, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Rethinking peace psychology: Toward an integrative discipline.
Peace psychology has reached a crossroad. There is now greater interest in peace psychology, particularly among a new generation of researching and practicing psychologists. Growth in peace psychology is reflected in national and international meetings, as well as publications, including introductory textbooks (Blumberg et al., 2006; MacNair, 2012), varieties of edited volumes (Bretherton & Law, 2015; Christie, 2011; Christie et al., 2001; Seedat et al., 2017; Webel & Galtung, 2007), and innovative papers in peer-reviewed journals (e.g., Christie et al., 2008; Gibson, 2011). This promising momentum in the field has created...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - November 11, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The vertical structure of collective identities and its predictive value for (in)tolerance of religious groups.
First, based on self-categorization theory, we conceptualize multilevel forms of collective identity, namely embedded and dis-embedded identity. These describe different forms of the identification with one’s religious community and one’s society as well as the perception of the (dis-)embeddedness of one’s community within or from one’s society. For the purpose of validation, we analyze data from five cross-sectional samples of religious communities within different societies. The data provide support for our conceptualizations. Second, we examine the predictive value of embedded and dis-embedded identity for (in)t...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - October 28, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Gandhi as psychologist.
Reviews the books, Gandhi and the Psychology of Nonviolence: Volume 1, Scientific Roots and Development by V. K. Kool and Rita Agrawal (2020) and Gandhi and the Psychology of Nonviolence: Volume 2, Applications Across Psychological Science by V. K. Kool and Rita Agrawal (2020). Volume I presents an overview of Gandhi’s approach to nonviolence, argues that many of his insights into the human psyche have been confirmed by later psychological research, and summarizes attempts by psychologists to measure and model nonviolence. Volume II applies Gandhian thought and practice to a number of areas of psychology, including psych...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - October 7, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Psychological functioning during the COVID-19 lockdown: The role of exposure to continuous traumatic stress in conflict-ridden regions.
The present study investigates the role of two risk factors (exposure to continuous traumatic stress and unemployment) and two psychological stress-related factors (resilience and coping) on individuals’ emotional state during the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak. The data were collected using online questionnaire from 778 individuals in April 2020 during Israel’s first lockdown. Israeli citizens who had been exposed for many years to recurrent missile attacks (n = 379) reported higher rates of anxiety and stress following the COVID-19 lockdown and lower rates of resilience, compared with those residing in regio...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - October 7, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Black Lives Matter protest art: Uncovering explicit and implicit emotions through thematic analysis.
Following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, activists who support Black Lives Matter in Washington, DC began affixing protest art and signs to a fence erected at the White House. Uniting models of activist emotions with psychological theories can indicate how activists’ expressions offer opportunities for honoring how current sentiments promote balance and enact transformation. A qualitative thematic analysis of the 638 phrases and 110 images revealed high frequencies of anger, which includes conveying social justice messages, and pride, such as showcasing identity. Grief was the second lowest documented emotion bu...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - October 7, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The agency of victims and political violence in South Korea: Reflection on the needs-based model of reconciliation.
This article examines how victims of political violence pursue and enhance their agency in the reconciliation process. By investigating biographical narratives of the survivors of democides in South Korea, this study offers empirical evidence of victims’ approach to reconciliation. Specifically, the findings present that victims understood agency as something that enables them to contribute to justice and social transformation, consider morality as important as agency promotion, and do not see victims as their primary in-group for social reconciliation. This article will provide contextual explanations of how such respon...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - September 27, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

“The Chinese virus”: How COVID-19’s transmission context and fear affect negative attitudes toward Chinese people.
This study highlights individuals’ adoption of defence strategies is dependent on the societal context surrounding the threat. We also discuss the potential to promote peace and reduce conflict by focusing on internal crises versus external threats. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology)
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - September 13, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Is outgroup prejudice passed down generationally in Rwanda after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi?
Family members who witnessed the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi arguably shape their children’s narratives of the events and subsequent formation of outgroup prejudice. An understanding of whether vestiges of the genocide are transmitted to future generations informs ongoing peacebuilding efforts. We, therefore, examined the relationship between child and guardian attitudes toward one’s outgroup among households of survivors or génocidaires and investigated whether this relationship was potentially affected by social interactions with members of outgroups (survivors or génocidaires) outside the family. We interviewe...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - September 13, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Agency into action.
Reviews the book, Empowered Boundaries: Speaking Truth, Setting Boundaries, and Inspiring Social Change by Christien Storm (2018). In this book Storm, a mental health therapist, untangles the personal, professional, familial, and ancestral threads associated with boundaries. She does this by inviting the reader to discover a dynamic threshold between self and other. The publisher’s book description of Empowered Boundaries rightly purports the book’s rich offering of practical skill sets for utilizing boundaries from the personal sphere to the political sphere. Storm, however, goes much further and deeper when suggestin...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - September 2, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Leadership and followership: Tools toward reconciliation and sustainable peace.
Reviews the book, "Peace, Reconciliation and Social Justice Leadership in the 21st Century: The Role of Leaders and Followers" by H. Eric Schockman, Vanessa Hernández Soto, and Aldo Boitano de Mora (2019). In the various chapters of the edited volume, Peace, Reconciliation and Social Justice Leadership in the 21st Century each author makes a contribution to a 360° panorama on leadership and followership approaches. Building on case studies extrapolated from complex realities—Uganda, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Bosnia– Herzegovina, Indonesia, Chile and Peru, just to cite a few—this book elaborates the concept of transformati...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - September 2, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The effects of apology and perceived status relations on willingness of Israeli-Arabs to seek help from Israeli-Jews.
Intergroup relations are complicated and affected by multiple factors. The present research extends previous work on relations between Israeli-Arabs and Israeli-Jews by examining the effect of perceived status relations and intergroup apology on help-seeking behavior. We predicted that being presented with a formal apology from a Jewish leader (compared to no apology) when status relations were presented as unstable (rather than stable), would make Israeli-Arabs especially reluctant to seek dependency-oriented help, relative to autonomy-oriented help, from an Israeli-Jewish helper. In line with our predictions, findings in...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - September 2, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research