{"content":[{"text":"CHAPTER TWELVE \n Emotion and Conflict: \n Why It Is Important \n to Understand How Emotions \n Affect Conflict and How \n Conflict Affects Emotions","bbox":{"left":0.334083,"top":0.137452,"width":0.33216899999999994,"height":0.20113899999999998}},{"text":"Evelin G. Lindner","bbox":{"left":0.429075,"top":0.353885,"width":0.14216400000000007,"height":0.018488999999999978}},{"text":"Lindner, Evelin G. (2006). Emotion and Conflict: Why It Is Important to Understand \n How Emotions Affect Conflict and How Conflict Affects Emotions. In Deutsch, Morton, \n Coleman, Peter T., and Marcus, Eric C. (Eds.), The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: \n Theory and Practice. Second edition. Chapter twelve, pp. 268-293, San Francisco, CA: \n Jossey-Bass.","bbox":{"left":0.150452,"top":0.385738,"width":0.6994769999999999,"height":0.08226699999999998}},{"text":"We have all experienced strong emotions related to conflict. Our emotions affect the \n conflicts in our lives and conflict, in turn, influences our emotions. \n This chapter begins with two brief examples, one international and one personal, to \n show the interaction between emotions and conflict. For the international example, let us \n look at World War II. \n Hitler was an isolated and alienated loner obsessed by the weakness of Germany \n during World War I and after. At some point, however, his obsessions began to resonate \n with the feelings of what was called in Germany “the little people” (die kleinen Leute, or \n the powerless). He offered a grand narrative of national humiliation and invited “the little \n people” to join in with the personal grievances they suffered due to the general political \n and economic misery. “The little people” occupied a distinctly subordinated position in \n Germany’s social hierarchy prior to Hitler’s rise. They rallied to Hitler’s cause because \n he provided them with a sense of importance. He was greeted as a savior, as a new kind \n of leader promising them love and unprecedented significance instead of insignificance. \n Only after World War II did they have to painfully recognize how he had abused their \n loyalty. As soon as he had enough popular support, Hitler built institutions that forced his \n manipulation on everybody, evoking noble feelings of loyalty and heroic resistance \n against humiliation, convincing the German people that the Aryan race was meant to lead \n and save the world. Hitler was an expert on feelings. Many Germans put such faith in \n Hitler that they followed","bbox":{"left":0.14692,"top":0.497331,"width":0.702842,"height":0.32127}},{"text":"268","bbox":{"left":0.146924,"top":0.897875,"width":0.029369000000000006,"height":0.018488999999999978}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}