Hope in the Middle East: Malleability Beliefs, Hope, and the Willingness to Compromise for Peace

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 67-75

  Cohen Chen, Smadar ^a,b   Halperin, Eran ^b   Crisp, Richard J ^a   Gross, James J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER   (Israel)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

emotions in conflict; hope; implicit theories; intergroup conflict

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890761896     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550613484499     Document Type: Article

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