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  • Developmental Psychology
  • Conflict Resolution

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  • Intergroup divisions often persist post-conflict, becoming entrenched and normative.
  • Violating these norms to aid outgroup members is a potential peacebuilding strategy but carries social risks.
  • This necessitates understanding prosocial risk-taking, defined as taking risks to help others.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore predictors of willingness to help general, ingroup, and outgroup targets among youth in three countries.
  • To investigate if prosocial behavior and trait risk-taking predict prosocial risk-taking.
  • To examine the moderating role of perceived peer norms regarding intergroup friendship on prosocial risk-taking.

Main Methods:

  • Cross-cultural study involving youth (12-26 years) in Switzerland (N=431), Northern Ireland (N=256), and Colombia (N=286).
  • Assessed individual differences in prosocial behavior, trait risk-taking, and prosocial risk-taking.
  • Explored perceived peer norms of intergroup friendship as a proxy for social risk.

Main Results:

  • Prosocial behavior and trait risk-taking differentially predicted prosocial risk-taking across countries.
  • No evidence found that combined high prosociality and risk-taking predicted prosocial risk-taking.
  • Perceived peer norms moderated the relationship: prosociality and risk-taking only predicted prosocial risk-taking when norms were supportive.

Conclusions:

  • Prosocial risk-taking is a complex behavior influenced by individual traits and social context, particularly peer norms.
  • Youth are agents capable of disrupting cycles of division and conflict through prosocial risk-taking.
  • Peacebuilding interventions should consider the ecological context and peer influences on youth engagement.