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Sacred bounds on the rational resolution of violent political conflict

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  • Jeremy Ginges

    (Dept Psychology - New School for Social Research)

  • Scott Atran

    (IJN - Institut Jean-Nicod - DEC - Département d'Etudes Cognitives - ENS Paris - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris sciences et lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CdF (institution) - Collège de France - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Département de Philosophie - ENS Paris - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris sciences et lettres)

  • Douglas Medin

    (Dept Psychology - Northwestern University)

  • Khalil Shikaki

    (Research Director - Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey research)

Abstract

We report a series of experiments carried out with Palestinian and Israeli participants showing that violent opposition to compromise over issues considered sacred is (i) increased by offering material incentives to compromise but (ii) decreased when the adversary makes symbolic compromises over their own sacred values. These results demonstrate some of the unique properties of reasoning and decision-making over sacred values. We show that the use of material incentives to promote the peaceful resolution of political and cultural conflicts may backfire when adversaries treat contested issues as sacred values.

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  • Jeremy Ginges & Scott Atran & Douglas Medin & Khalil Shikaki, 2007. "Sacred bounds on the rational resolution of violent political conflict," Post-Print ijn_00505179, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:ijn_00505179
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