%0 Journal Article
%T Anger, legacies of violence, and group conflict: An experiment in post
%A Thomas Zeitzoff
%J Conflict Management and Peace Science
%@ 1549-9219
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0738894216647901
%X Extant research hypothesizes that anger over past intergroup conflict serves as a catalyst for future conflict. However, few studies have experimentally tested this hypothesis on a representative sample in a high-stakes, field setting. I use a behavioral economics experiment to measure how anger over past conflict influences intergroup relations. Subjects were sampled proportional to population and ethnicity in Acre, Israel, a mixed city of Jews and Palestinian Citizens of Israel that experienced ethnic riots in 2008. The experiment randomly assigned subjects to an anger treatment about the riots or a neutral condition. Subjects then allocated income between themselves and three partners: one from their ingroup, one from their outgroup, and one whose identity was unclear. I find that priming anger over the riots did not increase discrimination. Rather, it reduced altruism to all groups, and this result was strongest for ˇ°high aggressionˇ± types. Qualitative information suggests that blame for the riots falls on both ingroup and outgroup members
%K Emotions
%K ethnic conflict
%K experiments
%K political psychology
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0738894216647901