Jeremy Ginges - Associate Professor of Psychology

Ginges, Jeremy

Jeremy Ginges

PhD 2004, Tel Aviv University

Associate Professor of Psychology

Profile:

My research explores the psychological dimension of cultural and political conflicts. I study (a) how people manage to cooperate with members of different ethnic, national or religious groups and (b) why cooperation breaks down into violent conflict. A secondary research interest concerns the psycho-social consequences of exposure to political violence.

Recent Publications:

Malhotra, D. K. and Ginges, J., (2010). Preferring balanced vs. advantageous peace agreements: A study of Israeli attitudes towards a two state solution. Judgment and Decision Making, 5, 420-427.

http://journal.sjdm.org/10/10920/jdm10920.pdf

Ginges, J., Hansen I., & Norenzayan, A. (2010). Religious belief, coalitional commitment and support for suicide attacks. Evolutionary Psychology, 8, 346-359.

http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/EP08346349r.pdf

Obeid, N., Chang, D., & Ginges, J. (2010). Beliefs of wife beating: A Lebanese case. Violence Against Women, 16, 691-712.

Dehghani, M., Iliev, R., Sachdeva, S., Atran, S., Ginges, J., & Medin, D. (2009). Emerging sacred values: The Iranian nuclear program.Judgement and Decision Making, 4, 930-933.

http://journal.sjdm.org/91203/jdm91203.html

Ginges, J. & Atran, S. (2009). What motivates participation in violent political action: selective incentives or parochial altruism? Annals of the New YorkAcademy of Sciences, 1167, 115-123.

Ginges, J. & Atran, S. (2009). Non-instrumental reasoning over sacred values: An Indonesian field experiment. In D.M. Bartels, C.W. Bauman, L.J. Skitka, & D.L. Medin (Eds,), Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Vol. 50:Moral Judgment and Decision Making. San Diego: Academic Press.

Ginges, J., Hansen, I.G. & Norenzayan, A. (2009). Religion and popular support for suicide attacks.Psychological Science, 20, 224-230.

Atran, S. & Ginges, J. ( 2009). How words could end a war. The New York Times, p. WK12

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/opinion/25atran.html

Ginges, J. & Atran, S. (2008). Humiliation and the inertia effect: Implications for understanding violence and compromise in intractable intergroup conflicts. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 8, 281-294.

Pintak, L. & Ginges, J. (May 25, 2008). Misreading the Arab Media . The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/opinion/25pintak.html

Ginges, J., Atran, A., Medin, D., & Shikaki, K. (2007). Sacred bounds on rational resolution of violent political conflict. Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesUSA, 104,7357-7360.

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/jginges/files/ginges_etal_2007.pdf

Ginges, J. (2005). Youth bulges, civic knowledge and political upheaval. Psychological Science,16, 659-661.

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/jginges/files/ginges2005.pdf

Office Location:

80 Fifth Ave., Room 706

Phone Number/Extension:
212 229 5727 x3012

Email:
gingesj@newschool.edu

Research Interests:

Sacred values and cultural conflict; psychology of political violence; religion and inter-group conflict; conflict resolution in cultural, political and ethnic disputes; consequences of long term exposure of children to political violence.

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