Current and Recent Research
Projects
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The Future of Arab-Israeli Relations o
Dynamics of the War on Terror o
Core Beliefs of Individuals and Groups Researchers at the Asch Center are
employing agent-based modeling using computer simulation to investigate: o Political Violence and Its Impacts, focusing on
testing coherent operationalizations of "violence" and measuring
its impact under different political conditions. o The determinants of political cascades and tipping
behavior under simple and complex conditions of population heterogeneity. o Virtualstan: the dynamics of succession in
culturally complex authoritarian regimes. o Beita: Secessionism and ethnopolitical mobilization
by peripheries and centers. Israel and
"HaBotz haMizrach haTichoni" Studying the future of Arab-Israeli relations
under conditions of extreme polarization. The War on
Terror, Dynamics and Consequences Trapped in the War on
Terror Website Core Beliefs of Individuals and Groups This research program focuses on
how five key issues—and the beliefs we hold about them—influence our personal
and collective lives. Concerns revolving around vulnerability, injustice, distrust,
superiority, and helplessness are crucial contributors to how we experience
and make sense of the world. They are also the key lenses through which
individuals and groups evaluate information and form judgments about
appropriate priorities, policies, and actions. More information is available here. Exploration of why many people consider
their national land "untradable" and sacred. Studies of Israeli and
American Jews, and Israeli, Palestinian and American Arabs. Cultural essentialism.
Analysis of the lay view that once one is raised in a culture, one is
indelibly imbued with fundamental aspects of the culture, and responsibility
for past deeds of ancestors in the culture. Ethnic aversion. The
conditions under which a real or imagined atrocity, in which members of Group
A do something terrible to members of Group B, leads to a general aversion to
all members of Group A by members of Group B who were not directly affected. |
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