Dan Bar-On
Biographic Data
| ID | 189300 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dan Bar-On |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dan |
| FAMILY NAME | Bar-On |
| SIGNATURE | BAR-ON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 251 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Combat stress reactions during the 1948 war: A conspiracy of silence
This article is based on a series of interviews with 73 individuals who participated in the 1948 war. Though the war had many physical as well as emotional casualties, surprisingly a relatively small portion of individuals were willing to admit the occurrence of combat stress reactions. This finding is quite puzzling in the face of the drastic course of the war. Hence, it is speculated that denial and suppressive processes underlie the interviewe…
Encounters in the Looking-glass of Time: Longitudinal Contribution of a Life Story Workshop to the Dialogue between Jewish and Arab Young adults in Israel
The field of encounter groups between Jews and Arabs in Israel is commonly discussed in academia; nevertheless, despite the multitude of studies that deal with encounter groups, longitudinal research in this area is very limited in the literature. The purpose of this article is to pinpoint, the contributions of an encounter group that was researched over a long period of time. The article describes the results of a four year longitudinal, qualita…
They Understand Only Force” A Critical Examination of the Erruption of Verbal Violence in a Jewish-Palestinian Dialogue
This study focuses on an outburst of verbal violence during a Jewish-Palestinian dialogue, aimed at improving the relations between the sides. The turning point was when Waffa, a Palestinian female said to a Jewish male participant: ” ...Would you be willing to be friends with a Nazi?” Following up with a clarification of the analogy she is drawing between Nazis and Jews: “I can understand why it is difficult for you to befriend Nazis. Your situa…
Histoire de l'Autre
Resumé Sami Adwan, palestinien, enseigne l'éducation à l'Université de Bethléem. Dan Bar-On, israélien, enseigne la psychologie à l'Université Ben Gourion de Beer-Sheva. Ensemble, ils ont fondé et dirigent Prime, « Peace Research Institute of the Middle East ». Leur projet « Learning Each Other's historical Narrative » porte sur l'enseignement de l'histoire du Proche-Orient aux élèves Israéliens et Palestiniens. Propos recueillis par Clémence Bos…
Jewish Israeli Teenagers, National Identity, and the Lessons of the Holocaust
This article examines the attitudes of a group of Jewish Israeli adolescents who participated in a Holocaust seminar that included an optional trip to related sites in Poland. The authors sought to determine whether youth who participate in such a seminar still consider Jewish Israeli identity important, which lessons of the Holocaust they value, and whether belonging to a survivor's family makes a difference when considering these lessons. The r…
Palestinian and Israeli Cooperation in Environmental Work During the “Peace Era”
Shared History Project: A PRIME Example of Peace-Building Under Fire
Learning about ‘good enough’ through ‘bad enough’: A story of a planned dialogue between israeli jews and palestinians
This study analyzes a dialogue process aimed at building relationships between Jews and Palestinians in Israel using an innovative research approach of following the story of the encounter. It attempts to explore whether such dialogue groups are able, in practice, to actually get away from the unbalanced political–structural conditions of the conflict between them. Usually we try to learn about such processes through successful ‘good enough’ enco…
How light pierces darkness
Whose House is This? Dilemmas of Identity Construction in the Israeli-Palestinian Context
This article examines the ways in which one's perception of the other contributes to processes involved in the construction of collective identity. This study presents analyses and comparisons of semi-structured interviews using a dilemma concerning ownership of a house that was undertaken with 20 Jewish and Palestinian university students, citizens of Israel, who participated in a 1-year seminar that dealt with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. …
From Working Through the Holocaust to Current Ethnic Conflicts: Evaluating the TRT Group Workshop in Hamburg
Environmental Work and Peace Work: The Palestinian-Israeli Case
This paper, based on a larger study that was carried out by a joint Palestinian – Israeli research team before and during the Al Aqsa Intifada, examines Israeli and Palestinian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that have worked on joint environmental projects. We focus here on three jointly run Palestinian – Israeli NGOs, 16 Israeli organizations and 12 Palestinian organizations that engaged in cooperative work, looking at the kind of work th…
Dialogue groups: TRT's guidelines for working through intractable conflicts by personal storytelling
This article describes how telling the story of one's personal experiences in a small group comprised of members from opposing sides of intractable conflicts can help work through some of the ongoing intergenerational effects of violence. The concept of through, which underlies the rationale for using this method, is reviewed. This story-telling approach was developed by the members of TRT (To Reflect and Trust). It was initially composed of Germ…
An analysis of the group process in encounters between Jews and Palestinians using a typology for discourse classification
The Dialogue between the ‘Self’ and the ‘Other’: A Process Analysis of Palestinian-Jewish Encounters in Israel
This study assumes that the collective identities of both Jews and Palestinians in Israel have long been constructed around the Jewish-Palestinian conflict, a major focus of social and historical reality in the Middle East region. Monolithic in their early stages, these constructions of identity underwent a process of deconstruction and reconstruction, primarily due to changes in the political reality (the peace process), globalization, and the s…
Individualism and Collectivism in Two Conflicted Societies: Comparing Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian-Arab High School Students
A theoretical framework concerning cultural patterns labeled individualism and collectivism is probed with regard to two conflicted societies, Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian-Arab societies. The following three methods were used to examine collectivism/individualism constructs among 1,190 Palestinian and 1,144 Israeli high school students: items that tap values, interest in different domains of history, and attitudes toward conflict resolution. Bo…
The Bystander in Relation to the Victim and the Perpetrator: Today and During the Holocaust
Quantitative assessment of response shift in QOL research
Individualism and Collectivism in Israeli Society: Comparing Religious and Secular High-School Students
Triandis' theoretical framework, concerning cultural patterns labeled individualism and collectivism, is probed with regard to the religious marker in the Israeli Jewish society. Three methods are used to examine collectivism-individualism constructs in 185 religious and 956 secular high school students: value items, interest in different domains of history, and attitudes toward political issues. A common collective basis of mutual value consensu…
Multigenerational Perspectives on Coping with the Holocaust Experience: An Attachment Perspective for Understanding the Developmental Sequelae of Trauma across Generations
In this paper, we advance a new approach to the intergenerational transmission of Holocaust experiences, by focusing on attachment theory. The approach is used as a framework for interpretation of the results of three studies on Holocaust survivors and their offspring, from different countries (The Netherlands, Canada, and Israel), and based on different conceptual approaches and methods of data collection (quantitative as well as qualitative). T…
The aftermath: Living with the holocaust
Israeli Society between the Culture of Death and the Culture of Life
RAUMA IN THE MIDDLE EAST is deeply (though not only) associated with the bitter struggle of the last hundred years between Arabs and Jews. It is difficult to summarize this long struggle in a few sentences. I will concentrate in this paper on the trauma associated with the PalestinianIsraeli conflict. There were about six hundred thousand Jews and a similar number of Palestinian living west of the Jordan river, when the United Nations decided to …
Ethical Issues in Biographical Interviews and Analysis
"The Recruited Identity": The Influence of the Intifada on the Perception of the Peace Process From the Standpoint of the Individual
As a rule, people have related to the external (political or security) difficulties impeding the peace process since the signing of the Oslo agreement. At the basis of this approach lies the assumption that when these difficulties are solved, the psychological difficulties of the individual that may delay the actualization of this most beautiful vision—a real peace between us and our Arab neighbors—will disappear by themselves. Therefore, there i…
Descendants of Nazi Perpetrators: Seven Years after the First Interviews
Numerous publications describe the original sample of descendants' of Nazi perpetrators in Germany: the silencingby both their families and the German society of their parents' participation in the extermination process during the Third Reich, their working-through process, the 'double wall" phenomenon between them and their parents, the logic of the descendants' moral arguments, their parents' paradoxical morality, the descendants' identificatio…
The Dialogue between the ‘Self’ and the ‘Other’: A Process Analysis of Palestinian-Jewish Encounters in Israel
This study assumes that the collective identities of both Jews and Palestinians in Israel have long been constructed around the Jewish-Palestinian conflict, a major focus of social and historical reality in the Middle East region. Monolithic in their early stages, these constructions of identity underwent a process of deconstruction and reconstruction, primarily due to changes in the political reality (the peace process), globalization, and the s…
Legacy of silence
Shared History Project: A PRIME Example of Peace-Building Under Fire
Individualism and Collectivism in Two Conflicted Societies: Comparing Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian-Arab High School Students
A theoretical framework concerning cultural patterns labeled individualism and collectivism is probed with regard to two conflicted societies, Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian-Arab societies. The following three methods were used to examine collectivism/individualism constructs among 1,190 Palestinian and 1,144 Israeli high school students: items that tap values, interest in different domains of history, and attitudes toward conflict resolution. Bo…
Learning about ‘good enough’ through ‘bad enough’: A story of a planned dialogue between israeli jews and palestinians
This study analyzes a dialogue process aimed at building relationships between Jews and Palestinians in Israel using an innovative research approach of following the story of the encounter. It attempts to explore whether such dialogue groups are able, in practice, to actually get away from the unbalanced political–structural conditions of the conflict between them. Usually we try to learn about such processes through successful ‘good enough’ enco…
An analysis of the group process in encounters between Jews and Palestinians using a typology for discourse classification
Individualism and Collectivism in Israeli Society: Comparing Religious and Secular High-School Students
Triandis' theoretical framework, concerning cultural patterns labeled individualism and collectivism, is probed with regard to the religious marker in the Israeli Jewish society. Three methods are used to examine collectivism-individualism constructs in 185 religious and 956 secular high school students: value items, interest in different domains of history, and attitudes toward political issues. A common collective basis of mutual value consensu…
Jewish Israeli Teenagers, National Identity, and the Lessons of the Holocaust
This article examines the attitudes of a group of Jewish Israeli adolescents who participated in a Holocaust seminar that included an optional trip to related sites in Poland. The authors sought to determine whether youth who participate in such a seminar still consider Jewish Israeli identity important, which lessons of the Holocaust they value, and whether belonging to a survivor's family makes a difference when considering these lessons. The r…
Dialogue groups: TRT's guidelines for working through intractable conflicts by personal storytelling
This article describes how telling the story of one's personal experiences in a small group comprised of members from opposing sides of intractable conflicts can help work through some of the ongoing intergenerational effects of violence. The concept of through, which underlies the rationale for using this method, is reviewed. This story-telling approach was developed by the members of TRT (To Reflect and Trust). It was initially composed of Germ…
Israeli Society between the Culture of Death and the Culture of Life
RAUMA IN THE MIDDLE EAST is deeply (though not only) associated with the bitter struggle of the last hundred years between Arabs and Jews. It is difficult to summarize this long struggle in a few sentences. I will concentrate in this paper on the trauma associated with the PalestinianIsraeli conflict. There were about six hundred thousand Jews and a similar number of Palestinian living west of the Jordan river, when the United Nations decided to …
Whose House is This? Dilemmas of Identity Construction in the Israeli-Palestinian Context
This article examines the ways in which one's perception of the other contributes to processes involved in the construction of collective identity. This study presents analyses and comparisons of semi-structured interviews using a dilemma concerning ownership of a house that was undertaken with 20 Jewish and Palestinian university students, citizens of Israel, who participated in a 1-year seminar that dealt with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. …
First Encounter Between Children of Survivors and Children of Perpetrators of the Holocaust
This is a first report of an unusual 4-day workshop that took place in Wuppertal, Germany, in June 1992. Five American and three Israeli children of Holocaust survivors encountered for the first time a group of children of perpetrators of the Holocaust who met regularly as a self-help group since the author interviewed them as part of an exploratory study, between 1985-1988. The workshop was not predesigned, so the members of both groups could he…
Holocaust Perpetrators and Their Children: A Paradoxical Morality
This study attempts to trace evidence of a suppressed moral conflict in perpetrators of the extermination process during the Third Reich and in perpetrators' children. The questions raised are (a) was there a suppressed conflict of morality in the perpetrators concerning their roles in the Holocaust and did such a conflict surface toward the end of their lives, and (b) did the silence around the parents'perpetrating roles affect the development o…
We Suffered Too: Nazi Children's Inability to Relate to the Suffering of the Victims of the Holocaust
Genuine and explicit empathy for the victims of one's predecessors' wrongdoings could be a psychological mechanism for preventing future similar atrocities. However, such empathy requires a lot of personal and societal working through that did not take place in Germany during the first 40 years after WWII. "We suffered too" was a major moral argument and normalization strategy found among descendants of Nazis in West Germany. This strategy kept t…
Professional Models vs. Patient Models in Rehabilitation after Heart Attack
Two problems were identified in the professional treatment of rehabilitation after acute myocardial infarction (MI): (1) “Tower of Babel”—the physician, the social worker, and the psychologist use competing models to diagnose, intervene in, and evaluate a rehabilitation process, while each of them accounts for a fraction of the variance of the rehabilitation outcomes. (2) Asymmetry of relations-all three models overlook the possibility that the p…
The Bystander in Relation to the Victim and the Perpetrator: Today and During the Holocaust
Descendants of Nazi Perpetrators: Seven Years after the First Interviews
Numerous publications describe the original sample of descendants' of Nazi perpetrators in Germany: the silencingby both their families and the German society of their parents' participation in the extermination process during the Third Reich, their working-through process, the 'double wall" phenomenon between them and their parents, the logic of the descendants' moral arguments, their parents' paradoxical morality, the descendants' identificatio…
Environmental Work and Peace Work: The Palestinian-Israeli Case
This paper, based on a larger study that was carried out by a joint Palestinian – Israeli research team before and during the Al Aqsa Intifada, examines Israeli and Palestinian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that have worked on joint environmental projects. We focus here on three jointly run Palestinian – Israeli NGOs, 16 Israeli organizations and 12 Palestinian organizations that engaged in cooperative work, looking at the kind of work th…
Encounters in the Looking-glass of Time: Longitudinal Contribution of a Life Story Workshop to the Dialogue between Jewish and Arab Young adults in Israel
The field of encounter groups between Jews and Arabs in Israel is commonly discussed in academia; nevertheless, despite the multitude of studies that deal with encounter groups, longitudinal research in this area is very limited in the literature. The purpose of this article is to pinpoint, the contributions of an encounter group that was researched over a long period of time. The article describes the results of a four year longitudinal, qualita…
They Understand Only Force” A Critical Examination of the Erruption of Verbal Violence in a Jewish-Palestinian Dialogue
This study focuses on an outburst of verbal violence during a Jewish-Palestinian dialogue, aimed at improving the relations between the sides. The turning point was when Waffa, a Palestinian female said to a Jewish male participant: ” ...Would you be willing to be friends with a Nazi?” Following up with a clarification of the analogy she is drawing between Nazis and Jews: “I can understand why it is difficult for you to befriend Nazis. Your situa…
Palestinian and Israeli Cooperation in Environmental Work During the “Peace Era”
Professional Models vs. Patient Models in Rehabilitation after Heart Attack
Two problems were identified in the professional treatment of rehabilitation after acute myocardial infarction (MI): (1) “Tower of Babel”—the physician, the social worker, and the psychologist use competing models to diagnose, intervene in, and evaluate a rehabilitation process, while each of them accounts for a fraction of the variance of the rehabilitation outcomes. (2) Asymmetry of relations-all three models overlook the possibility that the p…
Legacy of silence
Holocaust Perpetrators and Their Children: A Paradoxical Morality
This study attempts to trace evidence of a suppressed moral conflict in perpetrators of the extermination process during the Third Reich and in perpetrators' children. The questions raised are (a) was there a suppressed conflict of morality in the perpetrators concerning their roles in the Holocaust and did such a conflict surface toward the end of their lives, and (b) did the silence around the parents'perpetrating roles affect the development o…
We Suffered Too: Nazi Children's Inability to Relate to the Suffering of the Victims of the Holocaust
Genuine and explicit empathy for the victims of one's predecessors' wrongdoings could be a psychological mechanism for preventing future similar atrocities. However, such empathy requires a lot of personal and societal working through that did not take place in Germany during the first 40 years after WWII. "We suffered too" was a major moral argument and normalization strategy found among descendants of Nazis in West Germany. This strategy kept t…
A Biographical Case Study of a Victimizer's Daughter's Strategy: Pseudo-Identification With the Victims of the Holocaust
Previous studies have shown that many children of former Nazi perpetrators either identify with their parents by denying their atrocities, by distancing them-selves emotionally from their parents, or by acknowledging their participation in the extermination process. Through a hermeneutical case study of the narrated life story of a Euthanasia physician's daughter, a type of strategy, which we defined as pseudo-identification with the victim , is …
Working Through” the Holocaust? Comparing the Questionnaire Results of German and Israeli Students
First Encounter Between Children of Survivors and Children of Perpetrators of the Holocaust
This is a first report of an unusual 4-day workshop that took place in Wuppertal, Germany, in June 1992. Five American and three Israeli children of Holocaust survivors encountered for the first time a group of children of perpetrators of the Holocaust who met regularly as a self-help group since the author interviewed them as part of an exploratory study, between 1985-1988. The workshop was not predesigned, so the members of both groups could he…
The Psychological Perspective of Immigration and Resettlement in Israel: Separation vs. Severance
society is basically composed of accumulating waves of immigrants (Eilon 1976). Though large portions of the society are by now second and third generation of immigrants, one can still ask: When do people feel that they have finallyresettled and feel integrated?2 Does this process end with the first generation of immigrants? Or, alternatively, what does becoming an Israeli actually mean, when and how does it happen? These questions were answered …
Fear and Hope: Three Generations of the Holocaust
Genia spent two years in Auschwitz. Ze'ev fought with the Partisans. Olga hid in the Aryan section of Warsaw. Anya fled to Russia. Laura lived in Libya under the Italian fascist regime. All five survived the Holocaust, emigrated to Israel, and started families there. How the traumatic experience of these survivors has been transmitted, even transformed, from one generation to the next is the focus of Fear and Hope . From survivors to grandchildre…
Ethical Issues in Biographical Interviews and Analysis
"The Recruited Identity": The Influence of the Intifada on the Perception of the Peace Process From the Standpoint of the Individual
As a rule, people have related to the external (political or security) difficulties impeding the peace process since the signing of the Oslo agreement. At the basis of this approach lies the assumption that when these difficulties are solved, the psychological difficulties of the individual that may delay the actualization of this most beautiful vision—a real peace between us and our Arab neighbors—will disappear by themselves. Therefore, there i…
Descendants of Nazi Perpetrators: Seven Years after the First Interviews
Numerous publications describe the original sample of descendants' of Nazi perpetrators in Germany: the silencingby both their families and the German society of their parents' participation in the extermination process during the Third Reich, their working-through process, the 'double wall" phenomenon between them and their parents, the logic of the descendants' moral arguments, their parents' paradoxical morality, the descendants' identificatio…
Israeli Society between the Culture of Death and the Culture of Life
RAUMA IN THE MIDDLE EAST is deeply (though not only) associated with the bitter struggle of the last hundred years between Arabs and Jews. It is difficult to summarize this long struggle in a few sentences. I will concentrate in this paper on the trauma associated with the PalestinianIsraeli conflict. There were about six hundred thousand Jews and a similar number of Palestinian living west of the Jordan river, when the United Nations decided to …
Multigenerational Perspectives on Coping with the Holocaust Experience: An Attachment Perspective for Understanding the Developmental Sequelae of Trauma across Generations
In this paper, we advance a new approach to the intergenerational transmission of Holocaust experiences, by focusing on attachment theory. The approach is used as a framework for interpretation of the results of three studies on Holocaust survivors and their offspring, from different countries (The Netherlands, Canada, and Israel), and based on different conceptual approaches and methods of data collection (quantitative as well as qualitative). T…
The aftermath: Living with the holocaust
Individualism and Collectivism in Israeli Society: Comparing Religious and Secular High-School Students
Triandis' theoretical framework, concerning cultural patterns labeled individualism and collectivism, is probed with regard to the religious marker in the Israeli Jewish society. Three methods are used to examine collectivism-individualism constructs in 185 religious and 956 secular high school students: value items, interest in different domains of history, and attitudes toward political issues. A common collective basis of mutual value consensu…
Quantitative assessment of response shift in QOL research
Individualism and Collectivism in Two Conflicted Societies: Comparing Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian-Arab High School Students
A theoretical framework concerning cultural patterns labeled individualism and collectivism is probed with regard to two conflicted societies, Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian-Arab societies. The following three methods were used to examine collectivism/individualism constructs among 1,190 Palestinian and 1,144 Israeli high school students: items that tap values, interest in different domains of history, and attitudes toward conflict resolution. Bo…
The Bystander in Relation to the Victim and the Perpetrator: Today and During the Holocaust
From Working Through the Holocaust to Current Ethnic Conflicts: Evaluating the TRT Group Workshop in Hamburg
Environmental Work and Peace Work: The Palestinian-Israeli Case
This paper, based on a larger study that was carried out by a joint Palestinian – Israeli research team before and during the Al Aqsa Intifada, examines Israeli and Palestinian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that have worked on joint environmental projects. We focus here on three jointly run Palestinian – Israeli NGOs, 16 Israeli organizations and 12 Palestinian organizations that engaged in cooperative work, looking at the kind of work th…
Dialogue groups: TRT's guidelines for working through intractable conflicts by personal storytelling
This article describes how telling the story of one's personal experiences in a small group comprised of members from opposing sides of intractable conflicts can help work through some of the ongoing intergenerational effects of violence. The concept of through, which underlies the rationale for using this method, is reviewed. This story-telling approach was developed by the members of TRT (To Reflect and Trust). It was initially composed of Germ…
An analysis of the group process in encounters between Jews and Palestinians using a typology for discourse classification
The Dialogue between the ‘Self’ and the ‘Other’: A Process Analysis of Palestinian-Jewish Encounters in Israel
This study assumes that the collective identities of both Jews and Palestinians in Israel have long been constructed around the Jewish-Palestinian conflict, a major focus of social and historical reality in the Middle East region. Monolithic in their early stages, these constructions of identity underwent a process of deconstruction and reconstruction, primarily due to changes in the political reality (the peace process), globalization, and the s…
How light pierces darkness
Psychology (26 works) · Political science (25 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Law (17 works) · Law (17 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (16 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · History (10 works) · History (9 works)