The Role of Conflict Avoidance in the Kibbutz-Community

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bodil Benishu ◽  
Helena Syna Desivilya
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Avoidance

Cisterns, Waterways, and Rabbis: a Rabbinic Lens into Conflict Avoidance in the Riparian World

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-227
Author(s):  
Meir Wachs
Keyword(s):  
Primary Sources ◽  
Conflict Avoidance ◽  
Biblical Law ◽  
Liminal Spaces ◽  
Irrigation Policy

Abstract In the liminal spaces between concretized biblical law and a world in which “every man did what was right in his own eyes” (Judg. 17:6), the Rabbinic tradition developed enactments toward the pursuit of harmony and to minimize conflict. This paper delves into the role of one such mechanism, found throughout the primary sources, in an area of irrigation policy. The article seeks to understand the topic’s contours in the arena of rhetoric vs. reality. I argue that, contrary to initial appearances, the enactment of peace under discussion has every indication of being rooted in its social, legal and natural milieus.

When Do Conflicts Feel Right for Prevention-Focused Individuals? The Debiasing Effect of Low Need for Closure

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi-Xue Zhang ◽  
Xin Wei ◽  
Melody Manchi Chao ◽  
Yi Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Joint Effect ◽  
Conflict Avoidance ◽  
Need For Closure ◽  
Prevention Focus ◽  
Lay Beliefs ◽  
Avoidance Tendency ◽  
Novel Theory ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Conflict Resolutions

ABSTRACTBoth lay beliefs and research findings suggest that people tend to avoid conflicts if interpersonal harmony is highly valued. Counter to this widely accepted convention, we adopt the perspective of motivated social cognition to argue that conflict avoidance is subject to the joint effect of the need for epistemic security (need for closure) and the motivation to prevent losses (prevention focus). Such effect is mediated by negative anticipation towards the consequences of confronting conflicts. Results across three studies indicated that individuals with relatively high need for closure and high prevention focus show the strongest conflict avoidance tendency due to their heightened negative anticipation. However, with low need for closure, the negative anticipation and conflict avoidance tendency of high prevention-focused individuals are weakened or even disappear. This research offers a novel theory about the mechanism of conflict avoidance. The findings about the debiasing role of low need for closure also provide rich implications for conflict resolutions.

Superficial Harmony and Conflict Avoidance Resulting from Negative Anticipation in the Workplace

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 795-820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi-Xue Zhang ◽  
Xin Wei
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Conflict Avoidance ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Potential Conflict ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Moderated Mediation Model ◽  
Indirect Relationship ◽  
Practical Implications

ABSTRACTThis research examines how people perceive and respond to potential conflict in work settings. When individuals highly value their interpersonal relationships with others, they may take the potential costs to relationships into consideration in deciding how to handle conflict. We propose that individuals take an avoidance approach to conflict to prevent disruption in relationships from confrontation. Specifically, the value that individuals place on superficial harmony is positively related to their negative anticipation of relationship costs, which in turn leads to conflict avoidance. Furthermore, the direct relationship between superficial harmony and negative anticipation and the indirect relationship between superficial harmony and conflict avoidance are negatively moderated by the closeness of relations between the parties involved. The results of two studies conducted in workplace settings supported our hypothesized moderated mediation model. Highlighting the role of superficial harmony in conflict avoidance, this research contributes to the existing literature on conflict management and has practical implications for effectively managing conflict in the workplace.

Predictors of food-related aggression in wild Assamese macaques and the role of conflict avoidance

2014 ◽  
Vol 68 (11) ◽  
pp. 1829-1841 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlies Heesen ◽  
Sebastian Rogahn ◽  
Sally Macdonald ◽  
Julia Ostner ◽  
Oliver Schülke
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Avoidance ◽  
Assamese Macaques

Calling Mr Speaker ‘Mr Speaker’

Pragmatics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Bull ◽  
Anita Fetzer ◽  
Dániel Z. Kádár
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Conflict Avoidance ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
Normative Expectation ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
Face Threats ◽  
Speaker Of The House ◽  
The Uk

Abstract Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) in the UK House of Commons is a ritual event, governed by a cluster of conventions. Members of Parliament (MPs) must address their remarks to the Prime Minister (PM) through the medium of the Speaker of the House, who is responsible for maintaining order during debates, and determining which MP may speak next. Due to the sacred role of the Speaker and the prevalence of conventionalised conflict avoidance between the PM and those who ask challenging questions, PMQs resembles archaic tribal councils, in which rights and obligations prevail. Yet, the importance of conventionalised indirectness and the sacred role of the Speaker do not correlate with a lack of face-threats and challenges. PMQs represents an aggressive ritual setting in which the ritual roles and rules only offer a façade to package aggression, and indeed may operate as interactional resources whereby participants can even increase the efficiency of their verbal attacks. Thus, PMQs embodies a scene that ritual experts define as ‘anti-structural’ in character: in this setting, the normative expectation in daily life to avoid conflict is temporarily suspended, to such an extent that conflict has become the ritual norm and is regarded as quintessential to this parliamentary institution.

scholarly journals Is Negative Campaigning a Matter of Taste? Political Attacks, Incivility, and the Moderating Role of Individual Differences

2020 ◽  
pp. 1532673X2096554
Author(s):  
Alessandro Nai ◽  
Jürgen Maier
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Dark Triad ◽  
Conflict Avoidance ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Attitudinal Effects ◽  
Negative Messages ◽  
Amazon's Mechanical Turk

We test how individual differences moderate the attitudinal effects of attack politics in two online experiments among US respondents, surveyed through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk ( N = 1,408 and N = 1,081). Study 1 tests the moderating effect of personality traits (Big Five, Dark Triad) on the effectiveness of character vs. policy attacks. Study 2 investigates the difference between civil and uncivil attacks and explores the moderating effect of Big Five, Dark Triad, tolerance to negativity and conflict avoidance. Results suggest that the effects of negativity and incivility are not uniform across all respondents. For instance, evaluations of the sponsor are more negative after exposure to negative messages for respondents high in conflict avoidance; respondents high in psychopathy are more likely to have a more negative opinion of the target after being exposed to character attacks, whereas incivility worsen the perception of the target for individuals low in conflict avoidance and agreeableness. Harsher campaigns, in other terms, work particularly well for some – and are particularly rejected by others. The implications of these trends are discussed.

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