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Explaining Support for Violating Out‐Group Human Rights in Conflict: Attitudes Toward Principles of Human Rights, Trust in the Out‐Group, and Intergroup Contact 1
Author(s) -
MAOZ IFAT,
MCCAULEY CLARK
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2011.00740.x
Subject(s) - distrust , religiosity , social psychology , psychology , human rights , judaism , structural equation modeling , group (periodic table) , ingroups and outgroups , political science , law , computer science , chemistry , archaeology , organic chemistry , machine learning , psychotherapist , history
A public atmosphere that supports violating the human rights of out‐group members can enable or even encourage enacting such violations. We present a model that explains such support in terms of 2 underlying components: (a) support for violating general principles of human rights (SVHRG); and (b) lack of trust toward the specific out‐group. This model was successful ( R 2 = .47) in predicting Jewish‐Israeli support for violating human rights of Palestinians (SVHRP). Structural equation modeling indicated that, consistent with our hypotheses, SVHRG and distrust of Palestinians each significantly contributed to predicting SVHRP; and contact with Palestinians and religiosity each significantly contributed to predicting trust in Palestinians, with more contact predicting higher trust and more religiosity predicting lower trust.