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Peace by peace : 99 steps toward violence prevention & de-escalation in everyday life
\"Ending violence and creating peace begins with ourselves and our interpersonal encounters in our daily lives. With impeccable wisdom and graceful simplicity, 'Peace by peace' offers 99 points to provoke thought and discussion ... Ian Brennan's insights draw from his decades of experience successfully providing violence prevention and crisis resolution training to hundreds of thousands of people in schools, hospitals, acute-psychiatric settings, and beyond, as well as those facing criminal charges for violent conduct\"--Page 4 of cover.
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Can confrontation or avoidance coping reduce incivility recurrence? The roles of organizational communication openness and targets’ status at work
Incivility harms both employees and organizations but is often overlooked due to its low intensity and ambiguous intent. Unfortunately, existing studies on incivility coping have not yet identified effective strategies, such as avoidance or confrontation, to reduce its recurrence. Building upon the coping process of the transactional model of stress, this research proposes that organizational communication openness and targets’ status at work significantly affect the effectiveness of coping strategies. To test our hypotheses, we conducted a three-wave study with a sample of 219 employees in China from diverse occupations. The results indicated that avoidance, rather than confrontation, mediated the relationship between incivility and its recurrence. Furthermore, this indirect effect could be moderated by both organizational communication openness and targets’ status at work. Supplementary analysis also showed that these factors could moderate the conditional influence of confrontation on the relationship between incivility and its recurrence. In summary, this study concludes that targets often resort to avoidance when facing incivility, which inadvertently leads to its recurrence, particularly within organizations characterized by high communication openness or when both parties in the incivility interaction share the same organizational status. In contrast, confrontation can sometimes appear as a more constructive approach to preventing the recurrence of incivility, especially within organizations with high communication openness or when the instigator occupies a high-level position.
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Confronting Consumers’ Complicity: Do Confrontations with Causal Responsibility for Sweatshop Labor Raise Moral Obligation?
We report an interl realysis of five exploratory studies (total N = 1460) and two preregistered experiments (Ns = 778; 528), in which we investigated to what extent perceived causal involvement in harming sweatshop workers increases perceived moral obligation to support the workers. Within hypothetical scerios as well as alleged magazine articles, target persons purchasing sweatshop-made products were contrasted with uninvolved bystanders. When participants made judgments about abstract others, causal involvement moderately increased ratings of moral obligation. However, when facing their own complicity in maintaining sweatshop conditions, the effect of causal involvement was small to non-existent. The greater sensitivity to the moral imperative of causal responsibility for indirect harm within global supply chains for others than for the self cannot be attributed to defensive processes, however. To the contrary, moral obligation for the self remained comparatively high, even if causal responsibility was low, presumably due to the greater reliance on interl states for the self.
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Disrespectful democracy : the psychology of political incivility
\"The majority of Americans think that politics has an \"incivility problem,\" and that the problem has only gotten worse. Research demonstrates that negativity and incivility in politics have been increasing since the 1980s. Citizens underestimate, however, the impact that this uncivil tide has on their own reactions to political media coverage and on their political behavior. While political scientists have pointed to positive and negative effects of uncivil political communication, they assume that these behavioral changes are similar across all individuals. This book complicates the relationship between incivility and political behavior by introducing a key individual predisposition--conflict orientation. Political psychologist Emily Sydnor argues that individuals experience conflict in different ways; some enjoy arguments while others are uncomfortable and avoid face-to-face confrontation whenever possible. Using six primary surveys and survey experiments, and supplementing with additional data, she examines the behavioral effects of the interaction between conflict orientation and incivility. Specifically, she argues that this interaction affects how citizens engage with politics and political information in three primary ways: an affective response, producing divergent emotional responses to uncivil messages; the information-search, where anxiety and anger lead the conflict-avoidant to seek out more of the very thing they want to avoid, more uncivil political media; and engagement, where the conflict-avoidant pull away from political activities like protests and calls to their Congressperson whereas the conflict-approaching jump in\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Harmonious Accommodation among Coexisting Multicultural Ethical Frameworks through Confrontation
This paper interrogates the skepticism surrounding comparative ethics, particularly the question of its relevance in a world where ethical decision-making processes are primarily presumed to be dictated by one universalist culture. The paper argues that all cultures are inherently intercultural, evidenced by the historical coexistence of ideas and practices. Post-comparative ethics, which emphasizes the situational application of intellectual comparison and integration, is inevitable for postcolonial, non-Western societies. Historically, societies have navigated a variety of ethical frameworks, with some, like medieval Chinese society, embracing a plurality of beliefs. This pluralism is exemplified by the harmonious accommodation (yuanrong 圓融) of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism. Using the example of Song Dynasty Chan master Dahui Zonggao 大慧宗杲, this article illustrates that intercultural ethics can be both diverse and sincere. Dahui’s pluralistic approach demonstrates that sincere commitment to multiple ethical systems is possible in our multicultural situation. I will discuss common approaches to the multicultural situation, such as expedient synthesis, theoretical synthesis, and crude syncretism, before illustrating the advantage of Dahui’s kanhua 看話禪method as harmonious accommodation through confrontation. This underscores the importance of shifting the debate from “Why compare?” to “How to compare?” in achieving the accommodation of different ethical frameworks.
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Tips on How to Confront Others—When You Must
Validate a reflexive person by your words and body language, acknowledging her feelings. The self-assured leader's interaction is direct, confident and characterized by active listening. Six steps to a positive confrontation Effective confrontation builds a bridge between you and the other person, and to a better future in solving problems. 1.
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Dialogic Considerations of Confrontation as a Counseling Activity: An Examination of Allen Ivey's Use of Confronting as a Microskill
The authors examine confrontation as a communication skill practiced and described by counselor educator Allen Ivey. Seeing confrontation as a dialogic activity completed interactionally, they use conversation analysis to examine 2 passages where Ivey used confrontation in his teaching tapes. Their microanalyses highlight some important and largely unnoticed aspects of communication used in counseling skills such as confrontation. They conclude by discussing pedagogical implications they see following from their perspective and analyses.
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Cardiovascular Response to Interpersonal Provocation and Mental Arithmetic among High and Low Hostile Young Adult Males
To examine the relation between hostility and cardiovascular reactivity to stress, 42 undergraduate men were categorized into high and low hostile groups based on responses to the Cook Medley Hostility Scale. Participants engaged in two laboratory tasks: a Cognitive Task (mental arithmetic) and a Social Task (confrontation role-play). Cardiovascular measures of heart rate and blood pressure were obtained throughout rest and task periods and participants provided ratings of state anger and forgiveness following task completion. Results revealed that low hostile participants exhibited greater systolic blood pressure (SBP) responses to both tasks than high hostile participants (
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< .05), but no significant group differences were observed for heart rate or diastolic blood pressure. High hostile men reported greater state anger during resting conditions and less forgiveness following completion of tasks than low-hostile counterparts, but neither of these findings moderated the relation between hostility and SBP reactivity. Higher ratings of forgiveness were associated with lower SBP reactivity. These findings show that hostility is not always associated with exaggerated cardiovascular reactivity to stress, and the influence of various moderating factors should be considered in elucidating this relation.
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