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  2. Realistic conflict theory - Wikipedia

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    Realistic conflict theory (RCT), also known as realistic group conflict theory (RGCT), [1] [2] is a social psychological model of intergroup conflict. [3] The theory explains how intergroup hostility can arise as a result of conflicting goals and competition over limited resources, and it also offers an explanation for the feelings of prejudice and discrimination toward the outgroup that ...

  3. Conflict management style - Wikipedia

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    Conflict is usually found in an individualistic culture, where competition and individual achievement is stressed over interdependence. [6] Communication is often seen as crucial to maintaining a healthy relationship, and the way one resolves conflict is important to maintaining healthy relationships. [7]

  4. Social conflict - Wikipedia

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    Social conflict is the struggle for agency or power in society. Social conflict occurs when two or more people oppose each other in social interaction, and each exerts social power with reciprocity in an effort to achieve incompatible goals but prevent the other from attaining their own.

  5. Superordinate goals - Wikipedia

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    In social psychology, superordinate goals are goals that are worth completing but require two or more social groups to cooperatively achieve. [1] The idea was proposed by social psychologist Muzafer Sherif in his experiments on intergroup relations, run in the 1940s and 1950s, as a way of reducing conflict between competing groups. [2]

  6. In-group favoritism - Wikipedia

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    Realistic conflict theory (or realistic group conflict) posits that competition between groups for resources is the cause of in-group bias and the corresponding negative treatment of members of the out-group. Muzafer Sherif's Robbers Cave Experiment is the most widely known demonstration of realistic conflict theory. In the experiment, 22 ...

  7. Conflict (process) - Wikipedia

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    When individuals with a collaborative conflict style join a group, a switch to a competitive group conflict style (group behavior) can occur. [58] Additionally, other effects of dominant behavior within the group and between groups come into play. [58] Motivations such as greed, fear, and social identity increase in groups. [58]

  8. Opinion: Psychology explains why the Israeli–Palestinian ...

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    Third-party mediators look at conflicts through the lens of business-style negotiations, where hard facts must be addressed when it comes to hostages, land, militarization, and so on.

  9. Conflict theories - Wikipedia

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    Conflict theories are perspectives in political philosophy and sociology which argue that individuals and groups (social classes) within society interact on the basis of conflict rather than agreement, while also emphasizing social psychology, historical materialism, power dynamics, and their roles in creating power structures, social movements, and social arrangements within a society.