Gender perceptions and support for compromise in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

David,; Maoz, Ifat

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“…The correlation between the 12% of the participants who indicated they trust the Palestinian leader and the 12% who perceived the news item as reliable suggests that prior real-world knowledge, rather than the textual design, could have affected the participants’ judgments and pushed them to react to Abbas’ decision with a highly skeptical attitude. In addition, the data conformed with previous studies (David and Maoz, 2015; David et al, 2018) and indicated that Jewish-Israelis express a medium level of support for political compromise ( M = 3.23, SD = 1.51), with 38% of the participants supporting a possible peace initiative (ratings of 4, 5 or 6 on the 1–6 scale). In contrast to the issue of trusting the proposing leader, the reliability of the news item had no significant influence on support for political compromise.…”

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“…Support for political compromise was based on three questions (adapted from David and Maoz, 2015; David et al, 2018; Shamir and Shikaki, 2010) that were rated on a 6-point scale ranging from strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (6). Responses to the three items were averaged for each respondent to create one scale according to which a high score means high support for political compromise.…”

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Too good to be true: The effect of conciliatory message design on compromising attitudes in intractable conflicts

Kampf

David

2019

Discourse & Society

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The aim of this article is twofold: first, to demonstrate how the use of experimental methods challenges the implicit assumption of progressive discourse analysts that ‘inspiring’ messages will have a positive effect on political attitudes and trust regardless of the recipients’ early political dispositions, and second, to examine the power of conciliatory message design to change political attitudes in favor of a peaceful solution to intractable conflicts such as the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. By employing the conceptual frameworks of progressive discourse analysis and experimental critical discourse analysis, we examined the most comprehensive hypothesis formulated thus far in the literature of conflict resolution with regard to the conditions under which conciliatory messages become successful. We found that the exposure of hawkish participants to highly conciliatory messages decreases both their support for compromise-based peace and their trust in the opponent’s leader, which underlines the need for more caution on the side of peace discourse scholars when assuming that conciliatory language has the power to bring about a (positive) political change. We conclude by discussing the implications of our findings for critical/progressive discourse analysts, conflict resolution scholars and professionals involved in conciliatory message design.

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Too good to be true: The effect of conciliatory message design on compromising attitudes in intractable conflicts

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David

2019

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“…However, when cultures were perceived as feminine, such messages activated among men a sense of moral obligation for altruism. In another study, David and Maoz (2015) found that perceiving out-groups as having stereotypical feminine traits (POSFT) and lower perception of threat from Palestinians predict increased levels of support for compromise. In the current study, we wish to further examine collective gender constructions by investigating how perceiving one's own group as having feminine-empathic traits (POFET), rather than perceptions of the out-group, and levels of empathy to the out-group are associated with support for political compromise with the out-group.…”

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“…Within the fast-growing literature on gender, conflicts, and negotiation, accumulated evidence shows the effect of gender and gender-related expectations and perceptions on political attitudes concerning conflicts, such as support for militant actions and compromise (David and Maoz 2015; David et al 2016; Eichenberg 2003; Maoz 2009; Tessler and Warriner 1997). The affective social role of women as empathic and other concerned is suggested as a possible factor that can explain the gender-related difference with regard to negotiation (Olekalns 2014; Pelligra 2011).…”

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“…Past studies have also focused on the impact of individual self-constructs—such as political ideology, malleability beliefs, and emotions (e.g., Halperin et al 2011; Maoz and McCauley 2005; Pliskin et al 2014)—on conciliatory attitudes in the context of intense intergroup conflicts. Only a handful of recent empirical studies (David and Maoz 2015; Rosenberg and Maoz 2012) examine the association between group perceptions and conflict-related attitudes. Nonetheless, all of them refer to the perception of the out-group, thus leaving the question concerning the effect of perceptions of one’s own group in conflict contexts unanswered.…”

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Gender-empathic Constructions, Empathy, and Support for Compromise in Intractable Conflict

David

Rosler

Maoz

2017

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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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 empathic will be negatively associated with such attitudes, with empathy being a significant mediator. Data were collected through a public opinion survey conducted with a representative sample of Israeli-Jewish adults ( N = 511). The findings supported our hypotheses, thus indicating that perceiving one’s own group as having feminine-empathic traits and empathy toward opponents made significant contributions to explaining Jewish-Israeli willingness to compromise with Palestinians. The implications of our findings for understanding the role of gender-empathic constructions and of empathy in conflict resolution are discussed.

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2015

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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The articles in this issue of are in four major groups, which deal with (a) basic psychological processes and conflict, (b) mental health and conflict, (c) psychology and conflict resolution, and (d) the relationship between psychology and the military.The articles in the first group explore basic psychological processes associated with forgiveness and collective guilt (Leonard, Yung, & Cairns, 2015), perceived threat (Billies, 2015), stereotypes (Mozumder & Haque, 2015), and attributions (Sammut, Bezzina, & Sartawi, 2015). Leonard et al. (2015) found that in the context of Northern Ireland, those who experienced collective guilt were more likely to be positively disposed toward outgroups. This relationship was present across religious groups, although the study also replicated the expected trend of Catholics identifying more strongly with their religious ingroup than did Protestants. Billies (2015) used qualitative narrative analysis to explore surveillance threat, in the context of heightened national security concerns in the United States. This study illuminated the very subtle changes experienced by minorities who are the targets of widespread "stop and frisk" policies, as security concerns become an increasingly salient national priority. The study by Billies makes clear that surveillance threats have costs and consequences, particularly for targeted minorities. The brief research report by Mozumder and Haque (2015) illuminates the important role of stereotypes in intergroup relations, with a focus on two groups living in southeastern Bangladesh. With a similar focus on basic cognitive processes, the brief research report by Sammut et al. (2015) explores intergroup attributions in the context of Malta.The second group of articles, which deal with mental health and conflict, begins with the timely examination by Suleiman and Agat-Galili (2015) of relationships between Israeli therapists and Arab patients. At the center of this relationship are issues of identity and identification, with macro intergroup conflicts and status inequalities seeping into interpersonal relationships in the therapy sessions. Individual therapists and mental health patients are not able to escape the larger conflicts pervading their societies, even when at the individual level they have the best of intentions to collaborate with one another. The second article in this group (Montiel, 2015) describes a personal 40-year journey by a highly insightful psychologist and prodemocracy activist living in the Philippines. Using the method of analytic autoethnography, the author examines the different layers of her experiences during the slow and painful transition out of dictatorship, moving toward a more open Philippine society. Like the discussion by Suleiman and Agat-Galili, Montiel's article highlights the complex relationship between macro and micro level psychological processes, and the challenges

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Gender perceptions and support for compromise in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Too good to be true: The effect of conciliatory message design on compromising attitudes in intractable conflicts

Too good to be true: The effect of conciliatory message design on compromising attitudes in intractable conflicts

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