The Informative Process Model as a New Intervention for Attitude Change in Intractable Conflicts: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Rosler, Nimrod; Sharvit, Keren; Hameiri, Boaz; Wiener-Blotner, Ori; Idan, Orly; Bar‐Tal, Daniel

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.946410

Cited by 8 publications

(5 citation statements)

References 85 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…One approach, mentioned above, presented targets embroiled in an intractable conflict with examples of similar conflicts in which costly conflict-supporting narratives developed. This helped illustrate that such narratives are prevalent, normal, and functional responses to the social chaos of intractable conflict—a nonthreatening validation of targets’ personal experiences, which increased their support for negotiating with the outgroup (Rosler et al, 2022). Researchers have also satisfied the needs for acceptance by engaging targets in a nonjudgmental exchange of personal narratives about sensitive social issues, which promoted empathy and inclusive attitudes (Broockman & Kalla, 2016; Kalla & Broockman, 2020; see also Killen et al, 2022).…”

Section: Five Approaches To Surmount Motivational Barriersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For instance, researchers presented targets involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with instances of other intractable conflicts that ended in peaceful resolution. These positive exemplars stimulated the hope needed to change entrenched conflict narratives, leading to greater support for negotiating with the outgroup (Rosler et al, 2022). Along with the efficacy of the intervention itself, it is also important to consider targets' sense of self-efficacy to engage with the intervention successfully.…”

Section: Direct Motivation: Aligning Values and Fostering Expectancie...mentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Intergroup psychological interventions: The motivational challenge.

Landry,

Halperin

2023

American Psychologist

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Social scientists have increasingly applied insights from descriptive research to develop psychological interventions aimed at improving intergroup relations. These interventions have achieved marked success-reducing prejudicial attitudes, fostering support for conciliatory social policies, and promoting peacebuilding behaviors. At the same time, intergroup conflict continues to rage in part because individuals often lack motivation to engage with these promising interventions. We take a step toward addressing this issue by developing a framework of approaches for delivering interventions to an unmotivated target audience. Along with (a) directly motivating targets by increasing their values and expectancies for addressing intergroup conflict, researchers can deliver interventions by (b) satisfying other psychological motivations of the target audience, (c) providing an instrumental benefit for engaging with the intervention, (d) embedding the intervention in a hedonically captivating medium, or (e) bypassing motivational barriers entirely by delivering the intervention outside of targets' conscious awareness. We define each approach and use illustrative examples to organize them into a conceptual framework before concluding with implications and future directions.

show abstract

Section: Five Approaches To Surmount Motivational Barriersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Direct Motivation: Aligning Values and Fostering Expectancie...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Intergroup psychological interventions: The motivational challenge.

Landry,

Halperin

2023

American Psychologist

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…At the same time, learning that similar conflicts have been resolved peacefully stimulated the hope needed to change entrenched conflict narratives (Cohen-Chen et al, 2017). Indeed, this non-threatening message of acceptance and change led Israelis toward greater support for negotiating with Palestinians (Rosler et al, 2022).…”

Section: Tapping Psychological Motivationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intergroup Psychological Interventions: The Motivational Challenge

Landry¹

2023

Preprint

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Social scientists have increasingly applied insights from descriptive research to develop psychological interventions aimed at improving intergroup relations. These interventions have achieved marked success in lab and field studies—reducing prejudicial attitudes and affective polarization, fostering support for conciliatory social policies, and promoting peace-building behaviors. At the same time, intergroup conflict continues to rage in part because individuals often lack motivation to engage with these promising interventions. So far, much time and effort has been devoted to designing effective intervention content that produces psychological change, but less attention has been paid to this “motivational challenge.” We take a step toward addressing this imbalance by developing a conceptual framework of methods by which social scientists can deliver the core content of their intergroup interventions to an unmotivated target audience. Along with (a) directly motivating targets by getting them on board with the intervention’s ultimate aim, researchers can deliver the core intervention content by (b) tapping into other psychological motivations of the target audience, (c) embedding the core content in other attractive features of the intervention unrelated to the conflict, or (d) bypass motivational barriers entirely by delivering the intervention outside of targets’ conscious awareness. We define each method and use illustrative examples to organize them into a conceptual framework, before concluding with implications and future directions.

show abstract

“…This highlights the (in-house-developed) intervention tournament as a tool to test different iterations of a similar intervention to zero in on the most effective one. In other words, in most cases, the core is similar, whether it is a drug (Efentakis & Politis, 2006) or the psychological content (Bruneau et al, 2022; Jenkins et al, 2021; Maples-Keller et al, 2020; Milkman et al, 2011; Rosler et al, 2021) that is administered, but the delivery is different in each of these interventions.…”

Section: Intervention Tournamentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Note that in-house-developed intervention tournaments are not limited to testing different iterations of the same underlying intervention and can also include interventions that are based on completely different underlying mechanisms, which are tested against each other (e.g., Hameiri et al, 2018; Van Assche et al, 2020; Yokum et al, 2018) and sometimes against their combination (Kim et al, 2021; Moore-Berg, Hameiri, & Bruneau, 2022; Rosler et al, 2021). For example, Yokum et al (2018) examined the efficacy of different variations of letters that remind Medicare recipients to get the flu vaccine.…”

Section: Intervention Tournamentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intervention Tournaments: An Overview of Concept, Design, and Implementation

Hameiri

Moore‐Berg

2022

Perspect Psychol Sci

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

A large portion of research in the social sciences is devoted to using interventions to combat societal and social problems, such as prejudice, discrimination, and intergroup conflict. However, these interventions are often developed using the theories and/or intuitions of the individuals who developed them and evaluated in isolation without comparing their efficacy with other interventions. Here, we make the case for an experimental design that addresses such issues: an intervention tournament—that is, a study that compares several different interventions against a single control and uses the same standardized outcome measures during assessment and participants drawn from the same population. We begin by highlighting the utility of intervention tournaments as an approach that complements other, more commonly used approaches to addressing societal issues. We then describe various approaches to intervention tournaments, which include crowdsourced, curated, and in-house-developed intervention tournaments, and their unique characteristics. Finally, we discuss practical recommendations and key design insights for conducting such research, given the existing literature. These include considerations of intervention-tournament deployment, characteristics of included interventions, statistical analysis and reporting, study design, longitudinal and underlying psychological mechanism assessment, and theoretical ramifications.

show abstract

The Informative Process Model as a New Intervention for Attitude Change in Intractable Conflicts: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Cited by 8 publications

References 85 publications

Intergroup psychological interventions: The motivational challenge.

Intergroup psychological interventions: The motivational challenge.

Intergroup Psychological Interventions: The Motivational Challenge

Intervention Tournaments: An Overview of Concept, Design, and Implementation

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About