Conflicts across the world between communities, cause high levels of social and physical devastation as well as a large drain in resources, but how can relations be improved? Psychologist Gordon ...

An ethnic minority faces state violence after advocating for self-determination. Immigrants endure discrimination from the native population. A local government faces the challenges of integrating ...

Why do violent conflicts between groups persist – even when all sides suffer as a result? Researchers from psychology and medicine at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have now examined the ...

“No more fiendish punishment could be devised [...] than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed by all the members thereof.” - William James, 1890 Harvard Professor ...

This interview was edited for length and clarity. FM: Tell me a bit about yourself — where did you grow up, how did that influence you? MC: I grew up in Southern California, specifically in the San ...

Citations: Wolf, Scott, Taya Cohen, Jeffrey Kirchner, Andrew Rea, R.Matthew Montoya, Chester Insko. 2009. Reducing intergroup conflict through the consideration of ...

A new study published in Evolution and Human Behavior suggests that people around the world are more likely to favor dominant, authoritarian leaders during times of intergroup conflict. Drawing on ...