Rosler Nimrod, Sharvit Keren, Hameiri Boaz, Wiener-Blotner Ori, Idan Orly, Bar-Tal Daniel
Program in Conflict Resolution and Mediation, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
Front Psychol. 2022 Jul 26;13:946410. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.946410. eCollection 2022.
Peacemaking is especially challenging in situations of intractable conflict. Collective narratives in this context contribute to coping with challenges societies face, but also fuel conflict continuation. We introduce the Informative Process Model (IPM), proposing that informing individuals about the socio-psychological processes through which conflict-supporting narratives develop, and suggesting that they can change via comparison to similar conflicts resolved peacefully, can facilitate unfreezing and change in attitudes. Study 1 established associations between awareness of conflict costs and conflict-supporting narratives, belief in the possibility of resolving the conflict peacefully and support for pursuing peace among Israeli-Jews and Palestinians. Studies 2 and 3 found that exposure to IPM-based original videos (vs. control) led Israeli-Jews to deliberation of the information presented, predicting acceptance of the IPM-based message, which, in turn, predicted support for negotiations. Study 3 also found similar effects across IPM-based messages focusing on different conflict-supporting themes. We discuss the implications to attitude change in intractable conflicts.
在棘手的冲突局势中，促成和平尤其具有挑战性。在这种背景下，集体叙事有助于应对社会面临的挑战，但也会助长冲突的持续。我们引入了信息过程模型（IPM），提出向个人介绍支持冲突的叙事形成的社会心理过程，并表明通过与和平解决的类似冲突进行比较，这些叙事可以改变，这可以促进解冻和态度改变。研究1在以色列犹太人和巴勒斯坦人中，确立了对冲突代价的认识与支持冲突的叙事、对和平解决冲突可能性的信念以及对寻求和平的支持之间的关联。研究2和3发现，接触基于IPM的原始视频（与对照组相比）促使以色列犹太人对所呈现的信息进行思考，从而预测对基于IPM的信息的接受程度，而这反过来又预测了对谈判的支持。研究3还发现，围绕不同支持冲突主题的基于IPM的信息都有类似效果。我们讨论了其对棘手冲突中态度改变的影响。
