POL S 325: Week 1 Resources

The Bias Table

Maps:  Study Sheet for Map Quiz
  Israel/Palestine Map I   Sharm al-Shaykh
  Israel/Palestine Map II  The Shatt al-`Arab Estuary
  Middle East  The Litani River marked in red

Practice Maps:  Middle East   Israel-Palestine

Map notes: Acre when transliterated directly from Hebrew is Akko and from Arabic is Akka. It's on the northwest coast of Israel/Palestine. Eilat is right next to Aqaba on the Gulf of Aqaba. Both cities are on both Israel/Palestine maps. The Litani is in Southern Lebanon.

Readings:

Fishbein, Harold D. and Nancy Dess. "An Evolutionary Perspective on Intercultural Conflict: Basic Mechanisms and Implications for Immigration Policy" in Bloom, Richard W. and Nancy Dess, eds. Evolutionary Psychology and Violence: A Primer for Policy Makers and Public Policy Advocates. Westport, CT: Praeger. 2003. pp. 157-202.

Greenberg, Jeff, Jeff Schimel, Andy Martens, Sheldon Solomon and Tom Pyszcznyski. "Sympathy for the Devil: Evidence that Reminding Whites of their Mortality Promotes More Favorable Reactions to White Racists." Motivation and Emotion. Vol. 25. No. 2. 2001. pp. 113-133.

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