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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Intergroup conflict"”.
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Intergroup conflict in organisations:predictors and relationships with team working effectiveness
This thesis begins with a review of the conflict literature. It continues with an illustration of the nature of intergroup conflict between British health care teams, by presenting results from an interview study using the critical incident technique. Within the theory testing part, drawing upon a …
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Social identity and the ideology in intergroup conflict: the case of Northern Ireland
… Social Psychological factors in the continuing conflict in Northern<br/>Ireland. The study concentrated on the role of social identity and the interplay between competing social identities. The thesis can be divided into three sections: an historical investigation of the background to the …
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Dynamo in the Desert: Energy Development and Environmental Contestation in the San Juan Basin, 1960-1985
… thesis explores how different groups came into conflict over coal-energy development. The groups that most actively contested the development of coal-energy were Navajo tribal leaders, local Navajo communities, Navajo activists, environmental organizations, and energy and mining corporations. I …
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Trust, fairness and cooperation in times of conflict : a behavioral economics approach to measuring intergroup norms of behavior in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
… seeks to deepen our understanding of intergroup relations by employing a behavioral experimental method to empirically measure intergroup norms of behavior and the motivations that drive them, within a real-world active and extremely charged conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. …
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A GOAL SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE TO THIRD-PARTY HOSTILITY AGAINST OUTGROUPS
Conflicts between groups are rarely kept private between disputants as lay third parties are typically present to observe the dispute. They are not directly affected by the conflict, however, choose to pick sides and/or participate in the conflict. Furthermore, they pursue multiple concurrent …
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Contextual Dynamics of Immigration Attitudes: Regional Differences in Southern Europe
… Drawing upon institutional theory and realistic conflict theory, I further refine a theory of ethnic competition and prejudice in the Southern European context. I argue that popular attitudes towards immigration are correlated with a set of individual level factors (e.g. perceptions of personal …
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Contenido y estructura de representaciones sociales sobre pedagogía y pedagogos en profesores de ciencias
… de las Representaciones Sociales y la Teoría del Conflicto Intergrupo. Se utilizaron datos de cuatro muestras distintas de profesores, pedagogos y estudiantes de cursos de licenciatura, que respondieron voluntariamente a los cuestionarios y entrevistas elaborados. Los indicadores estadísticos …
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Building pockets of peace. A case study using the "Veil of Ignorance" methodology
… by research on emotions, social identity, and intergroup conflict. I detail the process of bridging the theory-practice divide: that is, how I moved from having a theoretical procedure to implementing two pilot studies in Guinea-Bissau with the United Nations Development Programme. The pilots …
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Applying theory-based interventions to encourage successful intergroup contact through shared education programme in Northern Ireland
… now in a period of peace after years of violent intergroup conflict, known as ‘the Troubles’, Northern Ireland continues to experience difficult intergroup relations and societal segregation between the Catholic and Protestant communities (Jarman, 2005; Balcells, Daniels & Escribà-Folch, 2016). …
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Staging the Post-conflict City: Tourism, Urban Change, and Symbolic Contestation in Belfast, Northern Ireland
… urban staging in cultural identity politics and conflict transformation in post-Agreement Belfast, the center of Northern Ireland’s tourism industry. The primary argument is that these image-led regeneration strategies physically and discursively refashion the built environment and the contested …
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Street fight video exposure, affective response, racial judgments, and criminal sentencing recommendations: A study on non-fictional and non-news mediated violence
… and practical approach to investigating intergroup conflict media across varying contexts. MAAB-M predicts viewers’ affective responses to SFV exposure will influence their racial ingroup identification levels and, in turn, their criminal punishment recommendations for racial outgroup SFV …
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Accuracy and Social Motivations Shape Judgements of (Mis)Information
Why do people believe in and share misinformation? Some theories focus on social identity and politically motivated reasoning, arguing that people are motivated to believe and share identity-congruent news. Other theories suggest that belief in misinformation is not shaped by motivated reasoning, …
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Investigating flow facilitated by art-making, and potential implications on identity, conflict and wellbeing
… implications of this for identity, wellbeing and conflict. Previous research on group flow facilitated by collaborative arts is limited to the medium of music (Pels, Kleinert & Mennigen, 2018; Gaggioli, Chirico, Mazzoni, Milani & Riva, 2015; Gloor, Oster & Fischbach, 2013; Hart & Blasé, 2016; …
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People are more than their politics: Expanding our sense of self as a way to alleviate affective polarization
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Zero-Sum Mindset & Its Discontents
… zero-sum beliefs that impact intragroup and intergroup relationships. Altogether, I find that zero-sum beliefs impair trust and cooperation, and motivate dominance and aggression strategies across a wide variety of situations and domains.