The Central Role of Group‐Based Hatred as an Emotional Antecedent of Political Intolerance: Evidence from Israel

Halperin, Eran; Canetti–Nisim, Daphna; Hirsch-Hoefler, Sivan

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9221.2008.00682.x

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“…Political Intolerance was measured by a four-item scale based on the classical political intolerance measure (Sullivan, Shamir, Walsh, & Roberts, 1985). The scale, which was adapted to Israeli society (Halperin, Canetti-Nisim, & Hirsch-Hoefler, 2009;Shamir & Sagiv-Schifter, 2006), specifically asks Jewish Israelis about their support for civil rights for Israeli Arabs (1-not at all, 6-very much). The items were:…”

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Implicit theories block negative attributions about a longstanding adversary: The case of Israelis and Arabs

Levontin

Halperin

Dweck

2013

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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Implicit theories block negative attributions about a longstanding adversary: The case of Israelis and Arabs

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Halperin

Dweck

2013

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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“…Anxiety increases individuals' sensitivity to risk (Fischhoff, Gonzalez, Small, & Lerner, 2003;Huddy, Feldman, & Cassese, 2007;Lerner & Keltner, 2000Renshon & Lerner, 2010;Skitka, Bauman, & Mullen, 2004), and we suggest that this results in increased attention to threatening information. In societies with high threat, individuals may become oversensitive to danger signals and exist in a readiness state to defend themselves (Bar-Tal, Halperin, & De Rivera, 2007;Halperin, Canetti-Nisim, & Hirsch-Hoefler, 2009). We argue that this hypervigilance to risk may occur even when threats are less existential than in high-threat societies and when anxiety is induced situationally.…”

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Anxiety, Immigration, and the Search for Information

Gadarian

Albertson

2013

Political Psychology

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In this article, we use the issue of immigration to explore the role of anxiety in responses to political appeals. According to previous literature, anxiety motivates citizens to learn and pay more attention to news coverage. Literature in psychology demonstrates that anxiety is associated with a tendency to pay closer attention to threatening information. We predict that anxious citizens will seek more information but that they will seek out and be attracted to threatening information. In an experiment, we induce anxiety about immigration and then subjects have the opportunity to search for additional information in a website designed to mimic online news sources. The website has both immigration and nonimmigration stories, and the immigration stories are split between threatening coverage and nonthreatening coverage. We find that anxious subjects exhibit biased information processing; they read, remember, and agree with threatening information.

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“…Although research employing a sociopsychological infrastructure framework has begun to flourish (e.g., Bar-Tal, Raviv, Raviv, & Dgani-Hirsh, 2009;Halperin, Bar-Tal, Nets-Zehngut, & Drori, 2008;Halperin, Canetti-Nisim, & Hirsch-Hoefler, 2009;Hammack, Pilecki, Caspi, & Strauss, 2011), there is a noticeable dearth of research on historical narratives of intractable conflict. In addition, no research has examined the emergence of sociopsychological infrastructure elements within contexts of intergroup dialogue or their effect on the dialogue process.…”

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“Victims” Versus “Righteous Victims”: The Rhetorical Construction of Social Categories in Historical Dialogue Among Israeli and Palestinian Youth

Pilecki

Hammack

2013

Political Psychology

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Informed by social identity theory and a rhetorical approach to the study of social category construction in social interaction, this study analyzed the nature and function of participant utterances in two conditions of intergroup dialogue about history between Israelis and Palestinians. Across conditions that sought to either emphasize recategorization into a common in-group identity or subcategorization into mutually differentiated identities, Palestinian and Arab Israeli utterances primarily reflected the theme of victimization, while Jewish Israeli utterances primarily reflected themes of justification and victimization. The way in which these utterances produced social competition for victim and perpetrator roles and reproduced master historical narratives of Palestinian victimization versus Jewish Israeli "righteous" victimization is illustrated. Findings are discussed in terms of the role of narrative and rhetoric about social categories in settings of intractable political conflict, and implications for dialogue-based intervention about history are addressed.KEY WORDS: Israel-Palestine conflict, history, identity, social categorization, intergroup contact, discourse analysis, rhetoric, victimization, narrative As a scientific discipline, political psychology is concerned with the relationship between particular political configurations and accommodations (e.g., government, public policy) and the mental-the stuff of thought, feeling, and motivated, situated action. A recent significant movement in political psychology concerns the increasing centrality of the idea of narrative as a mechanism through which to interrogate this complex and dynamic relationship between politics and the mind (Hammack, 2008;Hammack & Pilecki, 2012). Scholars have increasingly argued (and demonstrated empirically) that narratives represent sense-making devices of the social and political world that individuals call upon as they explain, justify, and legitimize their political behavior, be it related to their decision to vote for a particular political candidate or to engage in acts of political violence (e.g., Andrews, 2007;Couto, 1993;Hammack, 2010;Witteborn, 2007). The stories with which individuals engage as they ascribe a sense of purpose to their acts tell us much about the nature of human political behavior and contribute to our larger theoretical concern with the relation among politics, mind, and action.Political Psychology, Vol. 35, No. 6, 2014 doi: 10.1111 In this article, we examine the way in which narratives that explain and justify violence are deployed in conversations about history among Israeli and Palestinian youth, seeking to apply this rich theoretical perspective on narrative and politics to the naturalistic setting of an existing program ostensibly seeking to alter the rhetoric of conflict through conversation. We addressed three research questions in this study. What are the dominant themes that emerge in historical dialogue among utterances of Israeli and Palestinian youth? How does this thematic content...

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The Central Role of Group‐Based Hatred as an Emotional Antecedent of Political Intolerance: Evidence from Israel

Cited by 92 publications

References 75 publications

Implicit theories block negative attributions about a longstanding adversary: The case of Israelis and Arabs

Implicit theories block negative attributions about a longstanding adversary: The case of Israelis and Arabs

Anxiety, Immigration, and the Search for Information

“Victims” Versus “Righteous Victims”: The Rhetorical Construction of Social Categories in Historical Dialogue Among Israeli and Palestinian Youth

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