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Lesser of two evils: The effects of masculine honor beliefs, beliefs in pure good, evil, and the dark triad on moral decision making.
Moral decision making is complex and depends on individuals and their environment (Kimhi & Kasher, 2015), and what is morally permissible in warfare differs from what is morally permissible in everyday life (Watkins, 2020). Across 2 studies (N = 511), we assessed how masculine honor beliefs (MHBs), beliefs in pure good (BPGs) and evil (BPEs), and the dark triad (DT) relate to decision making in military and nonmilitary moral dilemmas. We hypothesized MHBs, BPEs, and DT would predict more confidence, wanting to be the hero, and less guilt with BPEs and DT also predicting more distrust of others and BPGs predicting more guil...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - August 27, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The social worldviews of Israelis and attitudes toward peace with the Palestinians: The mediating roles of ideological attitudes and perceptions of threat.
Discussion focuses on the implications of these results for understanding the roles that ideological attitudes and perceived threat may play in the connections between the social worldviews of Israelis and their attitudes toward peace with the Palestinians. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology)
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - August 27, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

(De)humanization and (dis)trust: Representations of Muslims in the UK newspapers following the 7/7 London bombings.
Dehumanization and distrust can have devastating consequences for intergroup relations. Until now, few studies have examined the ways in which both (de)humanizing and (dis)trustful discourse are presented in popular media. Recognizing the detrimental effects of terrorism on intergroup attitudes and the power of media in influencing social and political attitudes, the present research examined the frequency of (de)humanizing and (dis)trustful statements in newspaper coverage of the July 7, 2005, London bombings in the aftermath and at the 10-year anniversary of the attack. Drawing from theoretical work on dehumanization, it...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - August 27, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Psychosocial disembodiment of sacred spaces in a religious siege.
This study asks the question: How do religious followers experience personalized disembodiment as sacred spaces are devastated? We elicit visual representations and collective narratives through a focus group discussion with drawing activities among Christians and Muslims in Marawi. Results reveal that Christians and Muslims experience disembodiment by psychologically fusing the material destruction of their sacred spaces with the decimation of their own bodies. Findings of this study present the vital role of sacred spaces in escalating and deescalating armed conflict. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights re...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - August 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Development and preliminary evaluation of the Peace Attitudes Scale.
The peace construct has been observed by many theoretical perspectives (e.g., positive psychology, social psychology, international relations) and each contribution emphasized complementary aspects leading to different approaches to measurement and subdomain structure. Still, at present, no existing instrument provides a comprehensive assessment of these areas. The aim of this study is to contribute to the development, pilot testing, and initial validation of the Peace Attitude Scale (PAS), and to determine its psychometric properties, validity, and reliability. A total of 499 subjects were tested using items graded on a 7...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - August 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

An addition to peace education: Toward the process of a just and merciful community in schools.
The school community may be important in fostering peace within and between people. A major goal of school discipline is to help students develop and learn how to get along in a peaceful way. Given the historic emphasis on justice in school discipline and within peace education programs, we propose the novel idea of “school as a just and merciful community.” In this qualitative research study, a series of questions were asked to teachers in the United States in 2000 (N = 69) and 2015 (N = 49) and in China in 2015 (N = 116) to explore their perspectives on the feasibility of the just and merciful community (JMC) approac...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - August 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Deadly but protective: Americans’ unique perception of weapons.
Global levels of violence are declining, yet gun violence and other instances of instrumental violence still occur. While previous research has examined motivations for owning firearms, cognition about firearms—and in particular, perceptions of weapons as affording safety or as affording danger—has remained largely unexplored. We conducted a cross-national mixed-methods investigation involving the United States and three European countries (France, Spain, and Greece). Our findings indicated that Americans perceived weapons (assault rifle, handgun, hunting rifle, combat knife) as more protective and less dangerous than ...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - August 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Is it possible to transform polarized conflicts through deep democracy?
Reviews the book, The Political Necessity of Transpersonal Work: Deep Democracy's Potential to Transform Polarized Conflicts by Marcella Rowek (2018). The world struggles with many conflicts, and both conflict practitioners and mediators try to find new ways for conflict resolution and peacebuilding. In The Political Necessity of Transpersonal Work, the author, Marcella Rowek (who has been based at the University of Innsbruck), concisely documents the challenges of conflict resolution and peacebuilding as a mediator and tries to find ways to answer an important research question: “How can liminal spaces of empathic encou...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - July 27, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

“Winning” the “battle” and “beating” the COVID-19 “enemy”: Leaders’ use of war frames to define the pandemic.
During March 2020, as the American President and the British Prime Minister addressed their constituencies, they were also framing their perceptions regarding COVID-19. By analyzing the formal pronouncements of both leaders, we show that they used terminology and frames that are associated with conflicts: They described the pandemic as a war, saying they had a plan on how to “win” it; they defined isolation as patriotism and conferred war hero status on their medical teams, all the while expounding how their plan for handling the situation was better than the plans of others (although fighting a global pandemic). We cl...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - July 27, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

“I can't breathe”—Political plasticity, peace, and justice.
The death of George Floyd, an African-American man killed by White police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25, 2020, has reenergized the movement against police brutality—in the United States and across the globe. But this killing also highlights a disturbing puzzle: Why has violence against African Americans continued in the 21st century? The Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery in the United States in 1862, but African Americans continue to suffer deep injustices in the 21st century. Why is change toward equal justice so slow? Similarly, American women won the right to vote in 1920, but a century later we ...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - July 27, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Power-differentiated emotions of populist support: Regional anger and classed fear in Duterte’s Philippines.
Extensive studies link anger, fear, and support for populist leaders, but prevailing approaches largely assume an individual model of emotion. In this exploratory short report, we invoke a structurally sensitive social psychological account of the group-based and power-laden dynamics of populist emotion. Analyzing a stratified sample of Philippine respondents, we investigate how anger and fear interact with memberships in low- and high-power classed and regional groups in predicting support for populist President Rodrigo Duterte and various policies of his regime. Lower levels of regional and classed power intensified the ...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - July 23, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Rhetorical expressions of ethos of conflict and policymaking in intractable conflict by leaders: A comparative study of two Israeli prime ministers.
Political leaders serve as agents of peacemaking or conflict maintenance by determining society’s goals and courses of action and then mobilizing society accordingly. We propose at a distance measure that can serve as a proxy to leaders’ position regarding their conflict-related policy. Assuming that support of societal beliefs of ethos of conflict (EOC) indicates support for the continuation of the conflict we hypothesize that publicly adhering to existing shared EOC reflects freezing and hence is an indicator of conflict maintenance policy. Conversely, rhetorically departing from that ethos expresses unfreezing and i...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - July 23, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and grassroots mobilization for justice: Insights from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This article empirically investigates the impact of the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on reconciliation in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina. After a detailed process-tracing study of reconciliation in town, it proposes that ICTY has contributed to intergroup reconciliation via the mechanism of grassroots mobilization for justice. (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 - June 22, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Sports for improving intergroup relations among adolescents: An intervention study in Turkey.
This study evaluated the effectiveness of a sport-based intervention program that integrates sports with contact and conflict resolution training to improve intergroup relations of adolescents residing in Turkey. Thirty-two adolescents from central Turkey (Ankara) and 43 adolescents from the eastern Turkey (Hakkari) participated in the study. The intervention program included 13 weeks training and a 7-day mixed camp. A mixed-method approach was employed to assess its efficacy. Quantitative findings revealed that the intervention led to some degree of improvement in the conflict resolution capacities of adolescents. While t...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - June 15, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Understanding the Kurdish conflict through the perspectives of the Kurdish-Turkish diaspora in Germany.
The perspectives of laypeople within conflict settings are important because the ways in which they perceive and understand ongoing conflict can shape its course. While limited, existing research suggests that diaspora communities can also play a pivotal role in influencing conflict from outside their homeland; however, systematic examination of the different ways that members of diaspora communities frame conflict occurring within their homelands has not received attention. Using Entman’s (1993) systematic frames analysis, research by Uluğ and Cohrs (2016) examined conflict frames used by laypeople from different ethni...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - June 11, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research