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Our project aims to add to the small but growing empirical knowledge base of
competitive victimhood and interventions to facilitate intergroup conflict
resolution by providing a model that focuses on causes of competitive
victimhood’s persistence and people’s resistance to acknowledge outgroup
suffering. We then derive from this model an intervention in form of an
identity-affirming news report in order to alleviate competitive victimhood and
the obstacle it poses to peaceful conflict resolution.
Drawing on and synthesizing previous literature on intergroup relations,
conflict, and threat, we hypothesize that the prospect of acknowledging the
adversary group’s equal or even greater suffering (i.e. reduction of competitive
victimhood) threatens social identity and needs for existential security.
Drawing on self- and group-affirmation literature, we hypothesize that affirming
people’s identity and their security needs can alleviate the threats otherwise
posed by the prospect of acknowledging the adversary group’s equal or even
greater suffering (i.e. reduction of CV), and therefore enable people to
actually let go off CV, ultimately increasing support for nonviolent conflict
resolution and reconciliation. Combining the high internal validity of
experiments with the high external validity of field studies, both the model and
the intervention are rigorously tested in field experiments in the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with samples of both Jewish Israelis and
Palestinians.
Bernhard Leidner completed his Ph.D. at the New School
for Social Research, NY, USA
He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst in the Department of Psychology in the Psychology of Peace and Violence Program. His research focuses on processes of social identification and intergroup
relations, primarily in the context of large social categories such as nations
and ethnic groups. Specifically, his research is at the cross-road of the social
psychological areas of norms and morality (e.g., moral disengagement in response
to ingroup wrongdoings), intergroup threat (e.g., threat-induced shifting of
moral principles such as fairness or loyalty), and social justice (e.g.,
reparations after ingroup wrongdoings; conflict resolution). Some of the topics
Dr. Leidner investigated/s include: reactions to ingroup-committed torture;
American justice appraisals after atrocities committed in Iraq and Afghanistan;
reconciliation strategies in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is currently
interested in the search and need for meaning as motives for human 'warlikeness'
and peacefulness.
Dr. Bernhard Leidner Curriculum Vitae in PDF
Levi Adelman Curriculum Vitae in PDF