Why do we often act helpfully toward members of our own group while, at the same time, disadvantaging those outside it? To answer this question, a research team including Hannes Rusch and Isabel ...

Subjective perceptions of outcome interdependence play a critical role in conflict situations. People who subscribe to different beliefs about outcome interdependence in conflict essentially play ...

At its core, the conflict field is focused on developing and then teaching people the skills they need to constructively address the many conflicts that are integral to the human experience. It is a ...

Why do violent conflicts between groups persist – even when all sides suffer as a result? Researchers from psychology and medicine at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have now examined the ...

When 16th century British poet John Donne coined the phrase “No man is an island,” he could not have known how widely embraced it would be, coming to signify the significance of other people to every ...

The COVID-19 pandemic poses a serious threat to the health and wellbeing of humanity, with the full extent of its ripple effects still unknown. Beyond its influence on global health and the economy, ...