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High conflict why we get trapped and how we get out

High conflict is what happens when discord distills into a good-versus-evil kind of feud, the kind with an us and a them. The normal rules of engagement no longer apply: we feel increasingly certain of our own superiority and, at the same time, more and more mystified by the other side. Ripley inves...

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Main Author: Ripley, Amanda (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2021.
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Social conflict.
Interpersonal conflict.
Conflict management.
Self-help publications.
Summary: High conflict is what happens when discord distills into a good-versus-evil kind of feud, the kind with an us and a them. The normal rules of engagement no longer apply: we feel increasingly certain of our own superiority and, at the same time, more and more mystified by the other side. Ripley investigates how good people get captured by high conflict-- and how they break free. She interviews people who were drawn into high conflict, and shows how they found ways to rehumanize and recategorize their opponents, even as they continued to fight for what they knew was right. -- adapted from jacket
Physical Description: xiv, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-312) and index.
ISBN: 9781982128562
1982128569
Author Notes: Amanda Ripley received a B.A. in government from Cornell University in 1996. She is a journalist whose stories on human behavior and public policy have appeared in Time, The Atlantic, and Slate and helped Time win two National Magazine Awards. She is the author of The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why, which was turned into a PBS documentary, and The Smartest Kids in the World - and How They Got That Way. She is currently an Emerson Fellow at the New America Foundation.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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