The terms'Ethnicity' and 'conflict' are often correlated when discussing the conflicts within any nation's boundaries. Most likely, state of Myanmar conflict with Rohingya one recent examples. This study intends to investigate how ethnic identity people manifested itself as strife in society. Two questions: Firstly, why has ethnicity become a question "belongingness"? Secondly, howis entwined p...

This Article considers four trials held in the United States, United Kingdom, and Israel, in which gender outlaws were accused and convicted in a criminal court for fraudulent gender presentations. These trials raise questions at a number of junctures that touch on the regulation and politics of sex, gender, and sexuality. I argue that these cases manifest not only the unresolved tension betwee...

Abstract This paper examines policy effectiveness as a function of leader identity. We experimentally vary religious identity in coordination game implemented India and focus on citizen reactions to identity, controlling for actions. find that minority leaders improve coordination, majority do not. Alternative treatment arms reveal affirmative action minorities reverses this result, while inter...

Religious principles and values provide meaning and affect personal identity. They may also conflict with intimate needs and desires. This article examines how gay Catholics manage conflicting areas between their sexual and religious selves. Eight Polish gays with a Catholic background, who identified themselves as strong believers, shared their experiences during semi-structured interviews tha...

This paper takes up the familiar question of how one can explain support for European integration. One line of explanation builds on trade theory to theorize a calculus of economic costs and benefits. A second explanation draws on cognitive and social psychology to assess how individuals use political cues—grounded in ideology or elite communication—as a guide to complex issues. A third line dr...

This paper presents an analysis of computer mediated collaboration on a problem-solving task in a virtual world. The theoretical framework of this research combines research in Computer Mediated Communication with a social psychology theory of conflict. An experiment was conducted involving university students performing a problem solving task with a peer in an Educational MUD. Each performance...

This paper seeks to understand first how social connections have evolved in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a postconflict successor state, over the last two decades and second whether social connections may play a role in attenuating separatist and self-exclusionary beliefs, using a dataset collected just before the collapse of the former Yugoslavia. In post-conflict societies, low levels of social in...

Although past research has demonstrated a positive relationship between collective identification and normative conformity, there may be circumstances in which strongly identified members do not conform but instead choose to challenge group norms. This article proposes a normative conflict model, which distinguishes between nonconformity due to dissent (challenging norms to change them) and non...

The study investigates what an intermediate success rate means in bonobos, chimpanzees, and orangutans. Apes participated in liquid conservation experiments where they had to track the larger of two different quantities of juice after various kinds of transformations [Suda, C., & Call, J. (2004). Piagetian liquid conservation in the great apes (Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, and Pongo pygmaeus)...

The Israeli / Palestinian conflict is a long complex unedifying story of lost opportunities, fragile truces, dashed expectations and broken agreements. In this paper I offer a social psychological lens to this conflict that complements the IR perspective, and may help to explain its intractable nature. I focus on humiliation and how it helps to define both the Israeli and Palestinian sense of i...