The Effect of Sociopsychological Barriers on the Processing of New Information about Peace Opportunities

During protracted intractable conflicts, society members develop a sociopsychological infrastructure that leads to selective and biased information processing, obstructing the penetration of new information that may facilitate peacemaking. To validate a process model that depicts the functioning of...

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Published inThe Journal of conflict resolution Vol. 59; no. 1; pp. 93 - 119
Main Authors Porat, Roni, Halperin, Eran, Bar-Tal, Daniel
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.02.2015
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Acquisitions
Authoritarianism (Political Ideology)
Conflict
Conflict resolution
Conflict theory
Constraints
Information analysis
Information Processing
Infrastructure
Israel
Jews
Mathematical models
Peace keeping
Platform
Psychological factors
Sentiment analysis
Social impact
Social psychology
Studies
Values
psychological barriers
intractable conflict
ethos of conflict
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Summary:During protracted intractable conflicts, society members develop a sociopsychological infrastructure that leads to selective and biased information processing, obstructing the penetration of new information that may facilitate peacemaking. To validate a process model that depicts the functioning of these barriers, we conducted a study among 207 Israeli Jews, focusing on the effects of long-term barriers on information processing. After measuring these barriers, we introduced an invented peace proposal and gave participants the option of processing additional information concerning its implications using the Decision Board Platform. Aided by this platform, we conducted an in-depth analysis of information acquisition strategies and found that four general worldviews (i.e., traditional and universal values, incremental theory, and authoritarianism) were associated with the ethos of conflict, which in turn was associated with the general amount and type of information processed. The theoretical and applied implications are discussed.
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ISSN:0022-0027
1552-8766
DOI:10.1177/0022002713499719