The paradoxical brain: paradoxes impact conflict perspectives through increased neural alignment.

ABSTRACT: Mental perspectives can sometimes be changed by psychological interventions. For instance, when applied in the context of intergroup conflicts, interventions, such as the paradoxical thinking intervention, may unfreeze ingrained negative outgroup attitudes and thereby promote progress toward peacemaking. Yet, at present, the evaluation of interventions' impact relies almost exclusively on self-reported and behavioral measures that are informative, but are also prone to social desirability and self-presentational biases. In the present study, magnetoencephalography tracked neural alignment, before and after the paradoxical thinking intervention, during the processing of auditory narratives over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and thereby evaluated the intervention's potential to change ind

SUBMITTER: Levy J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11439920 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature