What is the role of emotional attachment to a place in predicting intergroup attitudes in a conflict setting? Here, we examined whether different types of place attachment would have distinct consequences for intergroup attitudes. Research was conducted in Jerusalem, where two conflicting groups fight for the territorial occupancy of the same land. We tested our hypotheses in three studies among Israelis and Palestinians and we measured their attitudes towards each other. The results showed that in case of Israelis, a traditional (natural and unintentional) form of attachment predicted prejudice towards out-group but an active form of attachment (i.e. conscious identification with a place) was negatively related to prejudice; in case of Palestinians, there was no effect of attachment (neither traditional, nor active), but place relativity (i.e. an indifferent attitude towards place) positively predicted acceptance of the outgroup. The implications of people-place relations in the contested city are discussed.

在冲突环境中，情感依恋在预测群体间态度时起什么作用？在这里，我们研究了不同类型的场所依恋是否会对群体间的态度产生不同的影响。在耶路撒冷进行了研究，两个冲突的团体为争夺同一土地的领土而战。我们在以色列人和巴勒斯坦人之间进行的三项研究中检验了我们的假设，并衡量了他们彼此之间的态度。结果表明，在以色列人的情况下，传统的（自然的和无意的）依恋形式会偏向群体外偏见，而积极的依恋形式（即有意识地识别某个地方）则与偏见负相关。对于巴勒斯坦人来说，依恋没有影响（既不是传统的也不是主动的），而是相对论（即 对地点的冷漠态度）积极地预测了外来群体的接受程度。讨论了有争议的城市中人与地方之间关系的含义。