I Am Very Little About Israel And The Conflicts That Are...

Allison Asbury PSY 462: Paper Assignment 1 Halperin et al 2011 I was interested to read this research article because I know very little about Israel and the conflicts that are happening over there. I had no idea that there were so many different groups of people connected to Palestine who feel tension and rejection. I always found the concept of fixed versus malleable nature and personality very intriguing. The first study had such a big sample size of 500 people that probably reflected an accurate view of the population. I was not surprised at the fact that Israeli-Jewish participants who believed that personality is malleable also had more positive attitudes toward Palestinians and were more willing to compromise. These participants who believed that groups did not have a fixed inherent nature would agree that groups can change basic characteristics. 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