Extinction threat and reciprocal threat reduction: Collective angst predicts willingness to compromise in intractable intergroup conflicts

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 797-813

  Halperin, Eran ^a   Porat, Roni ^b   Wohl, Michael J A ^c  

^a INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

collective angst; extinction threat; intergroup emotions; Palestinian Israeli conflict; threat reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885701701     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430213485994     Document Type: Article

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