In the current work, we experimentally examined the effect of exposure to a narrative of nonviolent resistance on third-party attitudes toward and support for a disempowered group involved in asymmetric conflict. Across three experiments, we found that Americans exposed to a brief video about Palestinian nonviolent resistance consistently registered more favorable attitudes toward Palestinians ...

Although Poe never worked out a systematic relationship between his political and philosophical thought, or relied entirely on the South for conceptual framework, Southern argument seems to have been indispensable him, it created that transitional area which helped formulate its perceptions language: means by he saw constructed world. Edgar Allan is shown draw both individual national, rather s...

While the study of nationalism has received much attention throughout the social sciences and humanities, the experimental investigation of it lags behind. In this paper we review recent advances in the examination of implicit nationalism. In the first set of experiments we survey, the Palestinian, Israeli, Italian, and Russian flags were primed (or not, in the control conditions) and their eff...

Too little is known about human functioning amidst chronic adversity. We addressed that need by studying adult Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt), a population that has experienced longstanding economic and political hardships. Fourteen group interviews were conducted in February, 2010 in Arabic by local fieldworkers with 68 participants representing the main stratificat...

Two of the most commonly discussed responses to climate change are mitigation and adaptation.  It is necessary that world continues mitigate greenhouse gases in atmosphere prevent severe effects change, but it just as important adaptation measures implemented prepare for unmitigable effects.  With ongoing Israeli occupation—now reaching its fifty-third year—Palestinians Occupied Pales...

The permanent conflict between Palestinians and Israelis in the southern regions of Lebanon forced local Shiites to create their own organization protect interests residents region. Today, Shiite Hizbullah has become an important factor socio-political landscape Lebanon.