Mountstephens-Fietz, Clara (2025) Reconciliation in Intractable Conflicts: The Informative Process Model and Collective Angst. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Persistent intergroup conflicts often challenge peace-making initiatives, enduring in part due to individuals’ entrenched conflict-related societal beliefs such as the justness of their own group’s cause and the dehumanisation of the opposing group. To this end, the Informative Process Model (IPM) has been proposed to target these beliefs and increase participants’ support peaceful conflict resolution, specifically negotiations. This thesis presents a secondary analysis of Rosler and colleagues’ (2022) seminal IPM intervention, measuring the intervention’s effects on 483 Israeli-Jewish participants’ attitudes towards specific policies. Extending the original model, results indicated a modest increase in support for conciliatory policies and decrease in support for aggressive policies. Additionally, the role of collective angst was explored. A concern for their country’s future was found to increase participants’ acceptance of the intervention’s messages. Despite smaller than anticipated effect sizes, the findings contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the IPM and highlight the need for future research to focus on a better understanding of the IPM’s mechanisms and participants’ contextual factors in order to better leverage a move towards reconciliation and resolution in intractable conflicts.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Epstude, K. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Aug 2025 11:51 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Aug 2025 11:51 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/5862 |
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