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Jewish-Arab violence: perspectives of a dominant majority and a subordinate minority.
Full Abstract
In 2 studies, the authors investigated intergroup violence as perceived by Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs. University and junior high school students judged Jewish-Arab clashes, which ended in shots fired at a crowd of either Jewish or Arab demonstrators. The authors hypothesized that judgments of these shootings would be contingent on 3 variables:
the origin of the respondent, the origin of the shooter, and the level of danger to the shooter. The results tended to support those hypotheses:
(a) Both Jewish and Arab respondents justified shootings by members of their own group more readily than those by members of the other group. (b) Jewish judgments of violence were associated more closely than Arab judgments with the danger that the demonstrators posed to the shooter. (c) The Jewish respondents referred to self-defense more often than did the Arab respondents to justify their judgments, whereas the Arab respondents referred more often to intergroup considerations. Those differences may reflect the disagreement between the majority and the minority on the issue that each group should take into consideration in cases of international violence.
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Author information
Author/s: Eshel, Yohanan (Y); Moran, Michal (M);
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Israel. yeshel@psy.haifa.ac.il
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal: The Journal of social psychology (J Soc Psychol), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Oct; vol 142 (issue 5) : pp 549-65
Dates: Created 2002/09/18; Completed 2002/10/01; Revised 2004/11/17;
PMID: 12236467, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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