Current and Future Costs of Intractable Conflicts-Can They Create Attitude Change?

ABSTRACT: Members of societies involved in an intractable conflict usually consider costs that stem from the continuation of the conflict as unavoidable and even justify for their collective existence. This perception is well-anchored in widely shared conflict-supporting narratives that motivate them to avoid information that challenges their views about the conflict. However, since providing information about such major costs as a method for moderating conflict-related views has not been receiving much attention, in this research, we explore this venue. We examine what kind of costs, and under what conditions, exposure to major costs of a conflict affects openness to information and conciliatory attitudes among Israeli Jews in the context of the intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Study 1 (

SUBMITTER: Rosler N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8187953 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature