Testing the impact and durability of a group malleability intervention in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

ABSTRACT: Fostering perceptions of group malleability (teaching people that groups are capable of change and improvement) has been shown to lead to short-term improvements in intergroup attitudes and willingness to make concessions in intractable conflicts. The present study, a field intervention involving 508 Israelis from three locations in Israel, replicated and substantially extended those findings by testing the durability of a group malleability intervention during a 6-month period of frequent violence. Three different 5-hour-long interventions were administered as leadership workshops. The group malleability intervention was compared with a neutral coping intervention and, importantly, with a state-of-the-art perspective-taking intervention. The group malleability intervention proved superior

SUBMITTER: Goldenberg A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5789904 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature