Draining the will for peace or war: Understanding how social influence and self-regulation processes interact in conflict

无论是在种族、宗教和政治团体之间，还是在企业和公司之间，冲突都很常见。然而，冲突会激怒人们，浪费时间，耗费金钱，伤害人们。尽管制定了合理的计划和良好的意图，但破坏性的冲突往往会升级。人们对这一过程知之甚少。本研究运用了关于理解动机的新的心理学研究，以提高我们对善意失败和冲突升级的理解。通过研究冲突如何耗尽我们锻炼意志力的能力，并增加我们对促进对抗的情景线索的脆弱性，我们将能够制定干预措施，以减少不必要的冲突升级。

Conflict is common, whether between racial, religious, and political groups, or between businesses and firms. Yet conflict frays tempers, wastes time, costs money, and hurts people. Destructive conflict escalation often occurs despite rational plans and good intentions. This process is poorly understood. The present research applies new psychological research on understanding motivation to improve our understanding of how good intentions fail and conflict escalates. By studying how conflict drains our ability to exercise willpower and increases our vulnerability to situational cues that promote confrontation, we will be able to develop interventions to reduce unwanted conflict escalation.