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Threatened Hence Justified: Jewish Israelis’ Use of Competitive Victimhood to Justify Violence Against Palestinians

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We theorized that competitive victimhood – the tendency to see one’s ingroup as having suffered more than the outgroup as a result of a prolong conflict– may function strategically as a psychological mechanism to justify violent actions against the outgroup under high (versus low) realistic threat. Focusing on the Jewish-Israeli perspective in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the present study supports this argument by demonstrating the positive relationship between competitive victimhood and justifying both direct and structural violence against Palestinians following high (vs. low) realistic threat. Theoretical and applied implications for conflict resolution are discussed.

Acceptance Date Aug 26, 2020
Publication Date Oct 12, 2020
Journal Asian Journal of Social Psychology
Print ISSN 1367-2223
Publisher Wiley
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12433
Keywords Competitive victimhood, Direct violence, Integrated threat theory, Structural violence, Threat
Publisher URL https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajsp.12433

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