The Oxford Handbook of Intergroup Conflict has the primary aim to bring together the perspectives of social psychology and peace psychology on intergroup conflict, which the editor believes “have grown apart” over the “last several decades” (p. 3), and to “provide a more integrative and cohesive foundation for researchand practiceoriented scholars who seek to develop effective approaches for re...

My core objectives with this project are: to provide a broad and theoretically well-grounded understanding of the formal and informal institutions, on the local, national, transnational and regional level, that are the best suited to prevent the escalation of conflict and maintain peace; to develop an in-depth understanding of how political, economic, social and cultural factors interact to cre...

Although considerable amount of research has attested to the link between work-to-family conflict (WFC) and family-to-work conflict (FWC) and psychological strain and wellbeing, there is a paucity of research investigating the phenomenon in the context of social workers. Moreover, very little is known about the impact of WFC and FWC in developing countries. The present study investigated the me...

Workplace conflict based on employee ethnicity is the focus of this symposium. We discuss employees' ethnic harassment experiences, exclusion due to ethnicity, and conflict based on employees' use of non-English languages in the workplace. We also present an integrative paper describing aspects of organizational climate that affect employee social cognition. PRESS PARAGRAPH With increasing work...

This study explored the K. A. Dodge (1986) model of social information processing as a mediator of the association between interparental relationship conflict and subsequent offspring romantic relationship conflict in young adulthood. The authors tested 4 social information processing stages (encoding, hostile attributions, generation of aggressive responses, and positive evaluation of aggressi...

In many conflicts, the consequences of engineering projects are among the problems at issue, and engineers are unavoidably parties to the problems. Engineers need to raise their awareness of the potential effects of their projects, especially in situations of serious social and political contention, and to explore alternative designs or engineering solutions, and methods of implementation, that...

Insect societies have evolved ways of policing selfish behaviour that arises due to genetic conflicts within the colony. A new case of policing in an ant where colony members are genetically identical highlights the role of colony economics for policing.

This paper presents a novel experiment on group conflict. Subjects are divided into groups according to preferences on paintings, and subjects are divided into groups according to self-declared political affiliations and leanings. Using a unique within subject design, we find twenty percent of subjects destroy social welfare – at personal cost – when facing a subject outside their group. This e...

Although equity theory has dominated the conception oi justice in organizational reldions, equality also shapes justice expectations and behaviors. Therefore, there are two basic and, in principle, inevitable pressures toward conflict: (a) one stems from equity violations and results in overt conflict involving attempts to restore justice and (b) the other stems from equality violations and res...

Conflict resolution research relies upon a deep understanding of human behavior within highly complex socionatural systems. Scholars must isolate the source of conflict among individuals reacting to the feedback of changing socionatural conditions. Fortunately, the oft-obscured roots of conflict typically surface at critical points of change within the system. We use the Mandera Triangle region...