Why do we often act helpfully toward members of our own group while, at the same time, disadvantaging those outside it? To answer this question, a research team including Hannes Rusch and Isabel ...

Researchers at Beijing Normal university and Leiden University have recently carried out a study investigating patterns in neural activity that could be observed in humans during intergroup conflicts ...

Subjective perceptions of outcome interdependence play a critical role in conflict situations. People who subscribe to different beliefs about outcome interdependence in conflict essentially play ...

At its core, the conflict field is focused on developing and then teaching people the skills they need to constructively address the many conflicts that are integral to the human experience. It is a ...

Most of us intuitively believe that deliberately harming others is immoral. And yet people frequently engage in all kinds of harmful behavior, such as cheating, stealing, and lying, when it is within ...

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 ...