Stereotypes and Prejudice in Conflict

Abstract

In the last two decades, the study of social stereotypes and prejudice has become one of the central interests in social psychology in particular. One reflection of this growing interest is the focus on shared stereotypes and prejudices. The primary reason for this development is the recognition that stereotypes and prejudice play a determinative role in shaping intergroup relations. In situations of conflict, they are simultaneously outcomes of the accumulated animosity between the involved groups and also feed on the continuation of the conflict by furnishing the cognitive-affective basis for the experienced mistrust by the parties. In spite of this recognition, no systematic analysis of the stereotypes and prejudice was carried out in real situations. This book tries to rectify this by applying a general and universal conceptual framework to the study of the acquisition and development of stereotypes and prejudice in a society involved in an intractable conflict.

Reasoning About the Scope of Religious Norms: Evidence From Hindu and Muslim Children in India

“…These findings, together with the history of communal violence and rise in Hindu nationalism described above, suggest a climate in which children may be prompted to extend their own religious norms to members of other groups and to respond unfavorably toward the norms of other religions. Consistent with this idea, previous studies indicate that experiencing conflict with and perceiving threat from another group can affect one's attitudes and moral reasoning toward that group (Atran & Ginges, 2012;Bar-Tal & Teichman, 2005;Nesdale, Maass, Durkin, & Griffiths, 2005;Velasco Gonz alez, Verkuyten, Weesie, & Poppe, 2008). However, children might still develop tolerant religious attitudes within such circumstances; the fact that children prefer members of their own religious group need not imply that they are insensitive to the welfare and rights of others (Killen, Rutland, Abrams, Mulvey, & Hitti, 2013).…”

Differences in State Anxiety Responses to Combat Pictures between Young Adult Israeli Jews and Israeli Palestinian Arabs

“…Findings of studies conducted in Israel in recent years among Israeli Jewish and Israeli Arab Palestinian citizens reveal an increasing tendency toward polarization on both sides (Bar-Tal, 2007;Bar-Tal & Teichman, 2005;Kupermintz, Salomon, & Hussisi, 2007). The sides disagree on essential issues concerning the character and identity of the state of Israel.…”

“…Thus, Arabic should have equal status to Hebrew. The majority of the Israeli Palestinian Arab population accepts the existence of the State of Israel, but rejects the idea of a Jewish-Zionist state (Bar-Tal & Teichman, 2005;Ben Meir & Shaked, 2007;Rouhana, 2004;Kupermintz, Salomon, & Hussisi, 2007).…”

Testing Assumptions of the Developmental Subjective Group Dynamics Model on Ad Hoc Groups of Youth

“…Crandall, Eshelmann i O'Brien (2002) slažu se da bi razlog dobnih razlika u unutargrupnoj pristranosti tijekom srednjega djetinjstva mogao biti posljedica internalizacije socijalnih normi vezanih uz prikladnost izražavanja predrasuda prema određenoj skupini, a ne kognitivnoga sazrijevanja, kako to pretpostavlja Aboud (1988). Na taj se način mogu objasniti rezultati nekih istraživanja koja pokazuju povećanje unutargrupne pristranosti s porastom dobi te čak i pojavu neprijateljstva prema vanjskoj grupi tijekom rane adolescencije, odnosno nakon desete godine (Bar-Tal i Teichman, 2005;Teichman i Bar-Tal, 2008).…”