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Social Psychology book cover
Social Psychology, 7/e
David G Myers, Hope College
Conflict and Peacemaking

Chapter Objectives

After completing your study of this chapter you should be able to:

1.

Define conflict.

2.

Explain how the pursuit of self-interest can produce a social dilemma.

3.

Suggest specific ways of resolving social dilemmas.

4.

Describe how competition produces conflict.

5.

Describe the criterion most people use to define justice.

6.

Identify specific misperceptions that fuel conflict.

7.

List the conditions under which close contact reduces hostility between opposing parties.

8.

Describe how superordinate goals reduce conflict.

9.

Explain how bargaining, mediation, and arbitration can be used to resolve differences between opposing parties.

10.

Describe the GRIT model for reducing conflict.








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