The Social Psychology of Intergroup Conflict Theory, Research and Ap
The area of intergroup relations and social conflict has once again become a major focus of social psychological theorizing and research. One of the consequences of this advance in knowledge is that social psychologists have increasingly been called upon
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SMP The Social Psychology of Intergroup Conflict Theory, Research and Applications Edited by Wolfgang Stroebe Arie W. Kruglanski Daniel Bar-Tal Mi/es H ewstone
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH
Wolfgang Stroebe Psychologisches Institut, Universität Tübingen 7400 Tübingen, Federal Republic of Germany Arie W. Kruglanski Department of Psychology, University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742, USA Daniel Bar-Tal School of Education, Tel-Aviv University Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel Miles Hewstone Department of Psychology, University of Bristol Bristol BS8 1HH England
ISBN 978-3-642-52126-3 ISBN 978-3-642-52124-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-52124-9 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Social psychology of intergroup conflict. (Springer series in social psychology) Inc1udes indexes. 1. Intergroup relations. 2. Conflict management. l. Stroebe, Wolfgang. H. Series. HM291.S58865 1988302.3'487-23320 ISBN 978-3-642-52126-3 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concemed, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in other ways, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is only permitted under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its version of lune 24,1985, and a copyright fee must always be paid. Violations fall under the prosecution act of the German Copyright Law. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1988 Originally published by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York in 1988 Softcover reprint ofthe hardcover 1st edition 1988 The use of general descriptive names, trade marks, etc. in this publication, even if the former are not especially identified, is not to be taken as a sign that such names, as understood by the Trade Marks and Merchandise Marks Act, may accordingly be used freely by anyone. 2126/3145-543210
Preface
The idea for this book was the result of a planned social intervention aimed at encouraging social relations between two groups, which, though not in conflict, previously had had very little contact. To correct an anomaly which had existed far too long, namely, the total lack of interaction between social psychologists from Europe and Israel, a meeting had been organized under the auspices of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology and the Israeli Association of Social Psychology that took place in a kibbutz near Tel Aviv late in 1983. The theme of the meeting was formulated very broadly as "Group processes and intergroup conflict" to allow a selection of participants on the basis of quality rather than area of research. To our surprise, this caution turned out to be unnecessary. The majority of the papers centered around the topic of conflict. Rowever, while the European work on conflict relied heavily on experimental laboratory research, most of the Israeli research consisted of field studies, which frequently focused on the Israeli-Palestini
