Promoting Reconciliation through the satisfaction of the emotional needs of victimized and perpetrating group members: The Needs-Based Model of Reconciliation

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1021-1030

  Shnabel, Nurit ^a   Nadler, Arie ^b   Ullrich, Johannes ^c   Dovidio, John F ^a   Carmi, Dganit ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acceptance; Emotional needs; Empowerment; Intergroup reconciliation; Perpetrators; Victims

Indexed keywords

ARAB; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CIVIL DISORDER; CONFLICT; EMOTION; ETHNOLOGY; GERMANY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; ISRAEL; JEW; MORALITY; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VICTIM;

ARABS; CIVIL DISORDERS; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CRIME VICTIMS; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; EMOTIONS; GERMANY; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; ISRAEL; JEWS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; MOTIVATION; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PREJUDICE; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 69149089473     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167209336610     Document Type: Article

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