- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Contributors
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Chapter 1 Ideology, Psychology, and Law -
Chapter 2 The End of the End of Ideology -
Chapter 3 System Justification Theory and Research: Implications for Law, Legal Advocacy, and Social Justice -
Chapter 4 Interpersonal Foundations of Ideological Thinking -
Chapter 5 Crowding Out Morality: How the Ideology of Self-Interest Can Be Self-Fulfilling - Legal Comment
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Chapter 6 Associations Between Law, Competitiveness, and the Pursuit of Self-Interest - Legal Comment
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Chapter 7 Automatic Associations: Personal Attitudes or Cultural Knowledge? - Legal Comment
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Chapter 8 The Policy IAT -
Chapter 9 Attributions and Ideologies: Two Divergent Visions of Human Behavior Behind Our Laws, Policies, and Theories -
Chapter 10 Preference, Principle, and Political Casuistry - Legal Comment
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Chapter 11 Identity, Belief, and Bias - Remedying Law's Partiality Through Social Science
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Chapter 12 Bias Perception and the Spiral of Conflict - Legal Comment
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Chapter 13 Seeing Bias: Discrediting and Dismissing Accurate Attributions -
Chapter 14 Backlash: The Reaction to Mind Sciences in Legal Academia -
Chapter 15 The Mystique of Instrumentalism -
Chapter 16 Aggressive Interrogation and Retributive Justice: A Proposed Psychological Model - Legal Comment
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Chapter 17 Two Social Psychologists' Reflections on Situationism and the Criminal Justice System -
Chapter 18 What’s Love Got to Do with It?: Stereotypical Women in Dispositionist Torts -
Chapter 19 Legal Interpretation and Intuitions of Public Policy -
Chapter 20 Ideology and the Study of Judicial Behavior -
Chapter 21 Depoliticizing Administrative Law - Index
Bias Perception and the Spiral of Conflict
Bias Perception and the Spiral of Conflict
- Chapter:
- (p.410) Chapter 12 Bias Perception and the Spiral of Conflict
- Source:
- Ideology, Psychology, and Law
- Author(s):
Kathleen A. Kennedy
Emily Pronin
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Conflicts sometimes are characterized by a negative spiral, whereby they escalate due to the reciprocally aggressive and competitive behavior of the contending parties. This chapter proposes that people’s inclination to perceive others as biased—particularly others who disagree with them—can initiate this conflict spiral, as well as fuel it and prevent its resolution. It reviews evidence that parties who disagree are especially likely to see those on the other side as biased and themselves as objective. Further, it demonstrates that people’s perceptions of their adversaries as biased leads them to act conflictually towards those adversaries. That conflictual action, in turn, is perceived by its recipients as a sign of bias, thereby leading those recipients to respond conflictually, as the spiral continues. An understanding of this bias-perception conflict spiral illuminates how conflicts develop and grow between both individuals and groups.
Keywords: conflict spiral, bias, disagreement, objectivity, conflict resolution
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Contributors
-
Chapter 1 Ideology, Psychology, and Law -
Chapter 2 The End of the End of Ideology -
Chapter 3 System Justification Theory and Research: Implications for Law, Legal Advocacy, and Social Justice -
Chapter 4 Interpersonal Foundations of Ideological Thinking -
Chapter 5 Crowding Out Morality: How the Ideology of Self-Interest Can Be Self-Fulfilling - Legal Comment
-
Chapter 6 Associations Between Law, Competitiveness, and the Pursuit of Self-Interest - Legal Comment
-
Chapter 7 Automatic Associations: Personal Attitudes or Cultural Knowledge? - Legal Comment
-
Chapter 8 The Policy IAT -
Chapter 9 Attributions and Ideologies: Two Divergent Visions of Human Behavior Behind Our Laws, Policies, and Theories -
Chapter 10 Preference, Principle, and Political Casuistry - Legal Comment
-
Chapter 11 Identity, Belief, and Bias - Remedying Law's Partiality Through Social Science
-
Chapter 12 Bias Perception and the Spiral of Conflict - Legal Comment
-
Chapter 13 Seeing Bias: Discrediting and Dismissing Accurate Attributions -
Chapter 14 Backlash: The Reaction to Mind Sciences in Legal Academia -
Chapter 15 The Mystique of Instrumentalism -
Chapter 16 Aggressive Interrogation and Retributive Justice: A Proposed Psychological Model - Legal Comment
-
Chapter 17 Two Social Psychologists' Reflections on Situationism and the Criminal Justice System -
Chapter 18 What’s Love Got to Do with It?: Stereotypical Women in Dispositionist Torts -
Chapter 19 Legal Interpretation and Intuitions of Public Policy -
Chapter 20 Ideology and the Study of Judicial Behavior -
Chapter 21 Depoliticizing Administrative Law - Index