A major barrier to conflict resolution is group members’ tendency to hold on to the ingroup’s narrative of the conflict and reject the outgroup’s perspective. In the current research, we propose that voicing internal criticism to an outgroup crowd can undermine such orientations and foster intergroup openness. Across four experiments, Israeli Jews who were exposed to a Palestinian criticizing P...

ABSTRACT The maintenance and escalation of intergroup conflicts have been explained by negative emotions attitudes toward outgroup members. Considering that creative cognition entails the ability to generate diverse new ideas, we sought investigate whether creativity may contribute overcoming associated with conflicts. Therefore, examined individual differences in predict conflict‐related conte...

Background: Ongoing conflict in the Middle East poses a major threat to health and security. A project screening Arab and Israeli newborns for hearing loss provided an opportunity to evaluate ways for building cooperation. The aims of this study were to: a) examine what attracted Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian participants to the project, b) describe challenges they faced, and c) draw lesso...

ABSTRACT The various narratives of a conflict play central role in its development. Not only are they reflection the collective memory parties conflict, but also functional element dynamics. In case Palestinian-Israeli data show that each side’s main fairly stable over time, and possess significant magnitudes – two thirds their publics, both cases. This article analyses use dynamics which affec...

The first ten months of the Obama administration’s efforts to achieve a breakthrough in Arab-Israeli peacemaking have led to widespread disappointment among Palestinians and to growing anxiety among Israelis. Inevitably, this unsatisfactory interim report card is partly a result of the high expectations created by President Barack Obama himself, during the presidential campaign as well as in hi...

PURPOSE An encounter between Palestinian parents of children with cancer and Israeli medical staff is a very special situation where "potential enemies" interact in a caring, trusting and intimate relationship for long periods of time. Our aim was to study the psychological and cultural encounter in order to understand the dynamics involved. METHOD The study is a qualitative one. Data was col...

studying translations during the time of conflict has gained currency in the recent decade in translation studies. one of the cases in which conflict manifests itself is in the way different countries choose to name an event or a geographical location, for example. this study set out to understand how translation of rival names and labeling was carried out in iranian state-run news agencies. to...