Ifat Maoz
Biographic Data
| ID | 77562 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ifat Maoz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ifat |
| FAMILY NAME | Maoz |
| SIGNATURE | MAOZ I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8524-1297 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 68 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 728 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 68 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Positive contact dominates Jewish–Palestinian interactions in mixed Israeli neighborhoods
Partition theory holds that ethnic mixing is associated with violence and therefore promotes separation. This article assesses the empirical validity of this logic through a survey in mixed neighborhoods in Israel. The findings largely contrast with partition theory, suggesting that Jewish and Palestinian Israelis interact frequently and positively with each other, and that these interactions are associated with support for contested conflict res…
Scrolling Past Suffering: Ethnocentric Media, Distrust, and Humanitarian Responsibility
This study investigates the extent to which Israeli Jews’ exposure to Israeli news coverage through social media platforms and their distrust of Palestinians predict their sense of humanitarian responsibility toward Palestinians, within the context of the 2023–2025 Israel-Hamas war. Our analysis is based on a representative sample of Israeli Jews (N = 903) obtained through public opinion polling. In line with our expectation, exposure to Israeli …
Spontaneous Contact and Social Resilience Following Eruption of Interethnic Violence in Ethnically Mixed Settings
Does spontaneous contact between individuals from different ethnonational groups affect their social resilience, specifically their ability to avoid escalation and radicalization following eruptions of ethnic violence? To address this question, we conducted a series of studies in mixed Jewish–Palestinian cities and academic settings. Study 1, based on data collected through large‐scale online surveys of residents in both mixed and non‐mixed citie…
Predictors of support for an Israeli–Arab regional agreement among the ultra-Orthodox Jewish–Israeli society
A Threat to Cohesion: Intragroup Affective Polarization in the Context of Intractable Intergroup Conflict
Growing affective polarization, or animosity between competing ideological groups, threatens to tear apart democratic societies worldwide. In nations that are facing external conflicts, the threat arising from these conflicts may boost internal cohesion and potentially reduce the internal threat of fragmentation. However, in the current study, we analyze survey datasets from two societies embedded in intractable conflicts, South Korea ( N = 897) …
Original Research Article: The Identity Journey of North American Ultra-Orthodox Women after Aliyah
Examining real-world legitimization of cross-party violence through two explanatory frameworks: Affective polarization and low group efficacy
Cross-party violence – violence between opposing partisans – is a growing concern worldwide. Understanding the predictors of the legitimization of violence against political opponents is thus becoming a vital goal. In this work, we propose two potential explanatory frameworks: affective polarization and low non-violent group efficacy. The first reflects an affective motivation to harm the out-party, while the latter reflects an instrumental motiv…
Spontaneous contact and intergroup attitudes in asymmetric protracted ethno-national conflict: East Jerusalem Palestinian students in an Israeli academic setting
Difficulties, experiences, and feelings of the Palestinian female students from East Jerusalem regarding their intergroup encounter with Israeli-Jews in Israeli academic settings
Lingua Franca as a Hidden Barrier to Conflict Resolution
Longstanding intergroup conflict is one of the most perilous issues on the global stage, leading to violence, displacement, and loss of life. Finding strategies to bring parties to the negotiation table is therefore of utmost importance for conflict resolution. Here we address a common problem in intergroup conflict - the lack of a shared, native tongue - which is typically solved by using a lingua franca. Three experimental studies revealed that…
Women for Peace: Promoting Dialogue and Peace through Facebook
The goal of this study is to examine the ways in which dialogue and peace are promoted and mobilized through a Facebook page in the protracted, ethnopolitical conflict between Israeli-Jews and Palestinians. A thematic qualitative text analysis based on the grounded theory approach was conducted on posts and comments that were published on the Facebook page of the Israeli grassroots movement Women Wage Peace (WWP), created by the Jewish and Arab w…
The Normalization of Hatred: Identity, Affective Polarization, and Dehumanization on Facebook in the Context of Intractable Political Conflict
Our study uses a qualitative analysis of social media discourse on a Facebook page to demonstrate how the phenomena of affective polarization and dehumanization are manifested through participation in a homogeneous enclave, or echo chamber. We employ Northrup's theory of identity in intractable conflict to show how users express their desire for psychological and physical separation from the other and use dehumanizing language that normalizes pot…
The new Middle East’: Jewish-Israeli exclusion of Palestinians in Facebook advertising
Previous studies have pointed to practices of disconnectivity and disengagement on Facebook, both generally (Stroud, 2010; Sunstein, 2009) and in the specific context of the Israeli society as a divided society in conflict (John and Dvir-Gvirsman, 2015; John and Gal, 2017; Gal, 2019). Our study aims to expand on these previous findings by examining practices of disconnectivity and disengagement in a different setting: among a professional group o…
Working together in the context of protracted asymmetric conflict: Israeli Jews and Palestinians in joint medical work teams
Gender-empathic Constructions, Empathy, and Support for Compromise in Intractable Conflict
The goal of the present study was to investigate how empathy and gender-empathic constructions affect the levels of support for political compromise in an intractable conflict. Gender-empathic constructions relate to perceptions that individuals hold about self or others as having feminine-empathic gender traits. We hypothesized that empathy will be positively associated with support for compromise, but that perceiving one’s own group as feminine…
Digital contestation in protracted conflict: The online struggle over al-Aqsa Mosque
This study explores the ways in which social media platforms are used by East Jerusalem Palestinians to mobilize religious practices and political activism in the struggle over one of the central issues of contestation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: al-Aqsa Mosque. A data set containing 166 posts and 485 comments from five major Facebook pages was qualitatively analyzed, thus revealing how these networked platforms mobilize and call their f…
Predicting Jewish-Israeli Recognition of Palestinian Pain and Suffering
Recognition is vital for conflict resolution. This study was designed to learn more about the factors underlying the willingness to recognize the pain and suffering of the opponent in the asymmetrical protracted conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Data were collected through a public opinion survey conducted with a representative sample of Israeli-Jewish adults ( N = 511). Perceptions of threat/distrust toward Palestinians and dehumanizat…
Intergroup Contact in Settings of Protracted Ethnopolitical Conflict
Intergroup contact, encounters, and dialogues are pervasively used in settings of protracted, ethnopolitical conflict as a device for improving relations between the sides and promoting conflict resolution and reconciliation. This chapter reviews the theoretical underpinnings of such efforts and discusses different models and modes of planned intergroup contact in conflict, as well as the potential of the intergroup encounters to bring about chan…
"Likes" for Peace: Can Facebook Promote Dialogue in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
This study examines the ways in which social media is used to promote intergroup dialogue and reconciliation in the context of the protracted, ethnopolitical conflict between Israeli-Jews and Palestinians. We focus on content analysis of posts and comments on a Facebook page named "Tweeting Arabs", which states that its' main goal is to publicize opinions, thoughts and beliefs of Israeli-Arabs, enabling the moderate voice to be heard and encourag…
“Likes” for Peace: Can Facebook Promote Dialogue in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict
This study examines the ways in which social media is used to promote intergroup dialogue and reconciliation in the context of the protracted, ethnopolitical conflict between Israeli-Jews and Palestinians. We focus on content analysis of posts and comments on a Facebook page named “Tweeting Arabs” which was established and is administered by Palestinian citizens of Israel. This page states that its’ main goal is to publicize opinions, thoughts an…
Gendering Human Rights: Threat and Gender Perceptions as Predictors of Attitudes towards Violating Human Rights in Asymmetric Conflict
We introduce, in this study, a gendering human rights model in which perceiving outgroups as having stereotypical feminine traits predicts decreased support for violating their human rights through the mediation of threat perception. This model is tested in the context of the asymmetrical protracted Israeli-Palestinian conflict using Jewish-Israeli public opinion polling data (N=517). In line with our expectations, the findings indicate that Jewi…
Gender perceptions and support for compromise in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Political Expression on Facebook in a Context of Conflict: Dilemmas and Coping Strategies of Jewish-Israeli Youth
Social media, and Facebook in particular, embody a complex and challenging context for impression management, particularly when it comes to political expression. The Israeli case presents a unique context in which to examine these questions as Jewish-Israeli youth are embedded in a divided society involved in the protracted Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A thematic content analysis of 15 in-depth interviews with Israeli-Jewish students who are reg…
Barriers to conflict resolution in landscapes of asymmetric conflict: Current issues and future directions
The core of the barriers research agenda is to understand what stands in the way of parties reaching agreement or successfully resolving a conflict, and to identify strategies for overcoming these barriers. Over the last three decades, this research agenda has expanded to incorporate new disciplinary perspectives and a broader range of methodological approaches. Here we draw together the important developments in the barriers research agenda repr…
Revisiting barriers to conflict resolution: Perspectives on power, relationships, and application to practice
This article introduces the special issue of Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict entitled “Revisiting barriers to conflict resolution: Perspectives on power, relationships, and application to practice”. We introduce the concepts and overarching themes to be addressed in the special issue, and provide an overview of the articles and contributors to the issue. In addition, we trace the intellectual roots of the barriers to conflict research agenda to t…
Threat, Dehumanization, and Support for Retaliatory Aggressive Policies in Asymmetric Conflict
Public opinion can permit or encourage retaliatory aggressive state policies against vulnerable but threatening out-groups. The authors present a model in which public support for such policies is determined by perceived threat from and dehumanization of the target group. This two-factor model predicts Israeli Jews' support for two retaliatory aggressive policies: the more hypothetical notion of Palestinian population transfer and concrete, coerc…
Reactive Devaluation of an “Israeli” vs. “Palestinian” Peace Proposal
Three studies used the Palestinian-Israeli context to investigate the tendency for political antagonists to derogate each other's compromise proposals. In study 1, Israeli Jews evaluated an actual Israeli-authored peace plan less favorably when it was attributed to the Palestinians than when it was attributed to their own government. In study 2, both Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs similarly devalued a Palestinian plan when it was ascribed to the …
Psychological Correlates of Support for Compromise: A Polling Study of Jewish‐Israeli Attitudes toward Solutions to the Israeli‐Palestinian Conflict
A representative national sampling of Israeli Jewish adults (n = 550) reported attitudes toward solutions of the Israeli‐Palestinian conflict that were salient in Israeli public discourse in 2002. Negative attitudes toward compromise were associated with zero‐sum threat perceptions of the conflict with Palestinians, such that improvement for the Palestinian side can only come at the expense of the Israeli side. Positive attitudes toward compromis…
Does contact work in protracted asymmetrical conflict? Appraising 20 years of reconciliation-aimed encounters between Israeli Jews and Palestinians
In the past few decades, planned contact interventions between groups in conflict have played an important role in attempts at improving intergroup relations and achieving peace and reconciliation. This article focuses on such reconciliation-aimed intergroup encounters between Israeli Jews and Palestinians that seek to reduce hostility and increase understanding and cooperation between the two nationalities. Like other contact interventions condu…
Multiple conflicts and competing agendas: A framework for conceptualizing structured encounters between groups in conflict—the case of a coexistence project of Jews and Palestinians in Israel
This study presents a framework for conceptualizing processes of interaction and communication within structured encounters between groups in conflict. It is based on the assumption that such encounters essentially reflect or are influenced by the external reality of conflict. As such, they are likely to be characterized by multiple interacting conflicts (Bar-On, 1997); by disputes over goals, agendas, and the expression of group identities; and …
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…
Power relations in intergroup encounters: A case study of Jewish–Arab encounters in Israel
An Experiment in Peace: Reconciliation-Aimed Workshops of Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian Youth
The goal of the present study is to examine workshops of Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian youth conducted in the post-Oslo era with the aim of promoting reconciliation and peacebuilding between the sides. The workshops were organized by an Israeli-Palestinian organization, in the framework of a peace education project. In these workshops, youth from pairs of Israeli and Palestinian high schools met for two days to discuss social, cultural and polit…
Dangerous stories: Encountering narratives of the other in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Threat Perceptions and Feelings as Predictors of Jewish-Israeli Support for Compromise with Palestinians
A representative sample of Israeli Jews (N = 504) completed a survey assessing attitudes towards compromise in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Support for compromise was well predicted (R = .63) by a combination of four scales: perception of collective threat from Palestinians, perception of zero-sum relations between Palestinians and Israelis, personal fear of Palestinians, and sympathy towards Palestinians. Feelings of hostility towards Pales…
Coexistence Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Evaluating Intergroup Encounter Interventions Between Jews and Arabs in Israel
This article presents a paradigm of process evaluation of intergroup contact interventions that has two objectives: (a) to classify intergroup encounters by their ideology and (b) to define and apply criteria that evaluate the quality of intergroup interaction, focusing on symmetry between members of both groups in active participation in the encounter. This paradigm was applied to evaluate 47 encounters programs between Israeli Jews and Israeli …
Online Argument Between Israeli Jews and Palestinians
Previous research with face-to-face groups found that majority–minority theory was a better predictor of argument patterns between Israelis and Palestinians than cultural codes theory (D. G. Ellis & I. Maoz, 2002; I. Maoz & D. G. Ellis, 2001). But, because of the difficulties of organizing face-to-face contacts between Israelis and Palestinians (e.g., security, transportation, check points), computer-mediated communication has taken on increased …
Peace Building in Violent Conflict: Israeli-Palestinian Post-Oslo People-to-People Activities
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…
The Normalization of Hatred: Identity, Affective Polarization, and Dehumanization on Facebook in the Context of Intractable Political Conflict
Our study uses a qualitative analysis of social media discourse on a Facebook page to demonstrate how the phenomena of affective polarization and dehumanization are manifested through participation in a homogeneous enclave, or echo chamber. We employ Northrup's theory of identity in intractable conflict to show how users express their desire for psychological and physical separation from the other and use dehumanizing language that normalizes pot…
The Women and Peace Hypothesis? The Effect of Opponent Negotiators' Gender on the Evaluation of Compromise Solutions in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The "women and peace" hypothesis refers to the tendency of women to hold more peaceful and compromising attitudes than men. We hypothesized that common gender stereotypes that portray women as less aggressive and as more cooperative and considerate than men will cause a gendered evaluation effect, in which: (1) a compromise proposal offered by female opponents in peace negotiations will be valued more favorably, as more beneficial to ones' own si…
Psychological Bases of Extreme Policy Preferences: How the Personal Beliefs of Israeli-Jews Predict Their Support for Population Transfer in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
This study examined the extent to which Israeli-Jews' beliefs about ingroup vulnerability, injustice, distrust, superiority, and helplessness are linked to extreme policy preferences in the context of the intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In a phone survey of a representative sample ( N = 504), stronger beliefs in all domains except for helplessness predicted greater support for the morally problematic transfer of Palestinians from the We…
Inclusive and exclusive modes of thinking: Studies of prediction, preference, and social perception during parliamentary elections
Gender-empathic Constructions, Empathy, and Support for Compromise in Intractable Conflict
The goal of the present study was to investigate how empathy and gender-empathic constructions affect the levels of support for political compromise in an intractable conflict. Gender-empathic constructions relate to perceptions that individuals hold about self or others as having feminine-empathic gender traits. We hypothesized that empathy will be positively associated with support for compromise, but that perceiving one’s own group as feminine…
Beyond Prejudice: Extending the Social Psychology of Conflict, Inequality and Social Change
The concept of prejudice has profoundly influenced how we have investigated, explained and tried to change intergroup relations of discrimination and inequality. But what has this concept contributed to our knowledge of relations between groups and what has it obscured or misrepresented? How has it expanded or narrowed the horizons of psychological inquiry? How effective or ineffective has it been in guiding our attempts to transform social relat…
The Effect of News Coverage Concerning the Opponents' Reaction to a Concession on Its Evaluation in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
This research studied the effect of news coverage on evaluation of concessions offered in negotiation. Specifically, it examined the influence of a press report concerning the opponents' reaction to a proposed concession—stating that the opponent has rejected the concession or that the opponent has accepted it—on the evaluation of a concession in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.The research also examined the effects of the political affiliation …
Is there contact at all? Intergroup interaction in planned contact interventions between Jews and Arabs in Israel
Predicting Jewish-Israeli Recognition of Palestinian Pain and Suffering
Recognition is vital for conflict resolution. This study was designed to learn more about the factors underlying the willingness to recognize the pain and suffering of the opponent in the asymmetrical protracted conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Data were collected through a public opinion survey conducted with a representative sample of Israeli-Jewish adults ( N = 511). Perceptions of threat/distrust toward Palestinians and dehumanizat…
Gender perceptions and support for compromise in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The Face of the Enemy: The Effect of Press-Reported Visual Information Regarding the Facial Features of Opponent Politicians on Support for Peace
Research in political communication devotes growing attention to the role of visual information relayed through different mediums, including the news media, in forming political impressions, attitudes, and opinions. An increasing body of research indicates that exposure to visual information on the facial appearance of politicians from one's own state or country affects the favorability of attitudes towards these politicians as well as affecting …
The Impact of Third-Party Communications on the Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations
This research studies the effect of news coverage on third-party interventions in negotiations. In the political context of the post-Oslo era in the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, it examines the influence of U.S. appeals, reported in the local Israeli press, that called on the Israelis to make concessions. Previous research regarding the reactive devaluation bias (Ross 1995) led to the hypothesis that a positive effect of the third-party comm…
Multiple conflicts and competing agendas: A framework for conceptualizing structured encounters between groups in conflict—the case of a coexistence project of Jews and Palestinians in Israel
This study presents a framework for conceptualizing processes of interaction and communication within structured encounters between groups in conflict. It is based on the assumption that such encounters essentially reflect or are influenced by the external reality of conflict. As such, they are likely to be characterized by multiple interacting conflicts (Bar-On, 1997); by disputes over goals, agendas, and the expression of group identities; and …
Power relations in intergroup encounters: A case study of Jewish–Arab encounters in Israel
An Experiment in Peace: Reconciliation-Aimed Workshops of Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian Youth
The goal of the present study is to examine workshops of Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian youth conducted in the post-Oslo era with the aim of promoting reconciliation and peacebuilding between the sides. The workshops were organized by an Israeli-Palestinian organization, in the framework of a peace education project. In these workshops, youth from pairs of Israeli and Palestinian high schools met for two days to discuss social, cultural and polit…
The violent asymmetrical encounter with the other in an army-civilian clash: The case of the intifada
This study investigates cognitive, emotional, and moral aspects of the experience of using military force against civilians in an army-civilian clash. Focusing on the case of the intifada (the Palestinian uprising in the Israeli-administered territories during 1987-1993), it examines how soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) who participated in military actions aimed at suppressing the uprising, experienced and coped with this asymmetrical …
Going to Ground: Argument in Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian Encounter Groups
The focus of this article is the management of arguments between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs. Israelis and Palestinians are 2 groups that have been in severe conflict about land, culture, history, and national rights. In this study we draw on the traditions of conversation analysis, logic, and rhetoric to explain how participants used arguments to manage certain dilemmas and problems. The data were group encounters between Israeli Jews and…
Participation, Control, and Dominance in Communication Between Groups in Conflict: Analysis of Dialogues Between Jews and Palestinians in Israel
From Working Through the Holocaust to Current Ethnic Conflicts: Evaluating the TRT Group Workshop in Hamburg
Is there contact at all? Intergroup interaction in planned contact interventions between Jews and Arabs in Israel
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…
Inclusive and exclusive modes of thinking: Studies of prediction, preference, and social perception during parliamentary elections
Reactive Devaluation of an “Israeli” vs. “Palestinian” Peace Proposal
Three studies used the Palestinian-Israeli context to investigate the tendency for political antagonists to derogate each other's compromise proposals. In study 1, Israeli Jews evaluated an actual Israeli-authored peace plan less favorably when it was attributed to the Palestinians than when it was attributed to their own government. In study 2, both Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs similarly devalued a Palestinian plan when it was ascribed to the …
Peace-building with the hawks: Attitude change of Jewish-Israeli hawks and doves following dialogue encounters with Palestinians
Peace Building in Violent Conflict: Israeli-Palestinian Post-Oslo People-to-People Activities
Coexistence Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Evaluating Intergroup Encounter Interventions Between Jews and Arabs in Israel
This article presents a paradigm of process evaluation of intergroup contact interventions that has two objectives: (a) to classify intergroup encounters by their ideology and (b) to define and apply criteria that evaluate the quality of intergroup interaction, focusing on symmetry between members of both groups in active participation in the encounter. This paradigm was applied to evaluate 47 encounters programs between Israeli Jews and Israeli …
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…
Evaluating the Communication between Groups in Dispute: Equality in Contact Interventions between Jews and Arabs in Israel
This article examines a new approach for evaluating the process of interactive conflict-resolution interventions by focusing on the quality of communication between the groups in dispute. This approach assesses the extent to which contact interventions, aimed at improving relations between sides in dispute, actually promote among their participants relationships, behaviors, and interactions that fulfill standards of social justice, equality, and …
Troubles With Identity: Obstacles to Coexistence Education in Conflict Ridden Societies
This article questions the redeeming power of education and intergroup educational initiatives and their potential to contribute to coexistence and reconciliation. We critically analyze the apparent perspectives that guide intergroup educational initiatives today. We show these perspectives to rest on monological understandings of identity and culture and uncover their historical roots as they evolved within positivism and within the historical d…
Psychological Correlates of Support for Compromise: A Polling Study of Jewish‐Israeli Attitudes toward Solutions to the Israeli‐Palestinian Conflict
A representative national sampling of Israeli Jewish adults (n = 550) reported attitudes toward solutions of the Israeli‐Palestinian conflict that were salient in Israeli public discourse in 2002. Negative attitudes toward compromise were associated with zero‐sum threat perceptions of the conflict with Palestinians, such that improvement for the Palestinian side can only come at the expense of the Israeli side. Positive attitudes toward compromis…
How Do We Educate for Peace? Study of narratives of Jewish and Palestinian peace activists
The present analysis focuses on the personal narratives of peace activists, the facilitators of reconciliation-aimed dialogues between two ethno-national groups in a situation of asymmetrical conflict: Jews and Palestinians. It puts forward the idea that these peace activists bring a wealth of knowledge from their personal and professional narratives to bear on their strategies and practices of social transformation. We posit that foregrounding t…
The Effect of News Coverage Concerning the Opponents' Reaction to a Concession on Its Evaluation in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
This research studied the effect of news coverage on evaluation of concessions offered in negotiation. Specifically, it examined the influence of a press report concerning the opponents' reaction to a proposed concession—stating that the opponent has rejected the concession or that the opponent has accepted it—on the evaluation of a concession in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.The research also examined the effects of the political affiliation …
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…
Decision Framing and Support for Concessions in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The purpose of the study is to explore, in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the influence of framing a decision task as inclusion or exclusion on Israeli Jewish respondents' support for the concession of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. Respondents received a list of 40 Jewish settlements. Details such as the number of residents and geographical location were provided for each settlement. The respondents were randomly…
Psychological Bases of Extreme Policy Preferences: How the Personal Beliefs of Israeli-Jews Predict Their Support for Population Transfer in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
This study examined the extent to which Israeli-Jews' beliefs about ingroup vulnerability, injustice, distrust, superiority, and helplessness are linked to extreme policy preferences in the context of the intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In a phone survey of a representative sample ( N = 504), stronger beliefs in all domains except for helplessness predicted greater support for the morally problematic transfer of Palestinians from the We…
Online Argument Between Israeli Jews and Palestinians
Previous research with face-to-face groups found that majority–minority theory was a better predictor of argument patterns between Israelis and Palestinians than cultural codes theory (D. G. Ellis & I. Maoz, 2002; I. Maoz & D. G. Ellis, 2001). But, because of the difficulties of organizing face-to-face contacts between Israelis and Palestinians (e.g., security, transportation, check points), computer-mediated communication has taken on increased …
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