Monday, 8 December 2014

Love and hate in Israel and Palestine

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Not long after the Sept. 11 attacks, a Newsweek cover story famously purported to explain "why they hate us," they being militant Muslim extremists. But there might be a problem with that thinking. According to a new study, it's not hatred of outsiders that motivates opposing sides in a conflict. To some extent, it's love for each other.

Psychologists have known for quite a while now that we interpret others' actions rather differently than our own, even if they're the very same actions. There's a simple reason for that difference, variously called the fundamental attribution error and correspondence...

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