Conflict resolution and intergroup reconciliation are difficult to achieve because of many social and psychological obstacles, such as people’s belief that members of a social group that is an adversary of their own group are mostly bad and essentially all the same. In this article, we introduce a novel intervention aimed at challenging these beliefs by exposing people to stories about individuals who have risked some important aspects of their lives to save the lives of other social groups’ members (moral exemplars). The effects of this moral-exemplar intervention have been tested with field experiments in several postconflict contexts using members of real antagonistic groups. We discuss the results of these studies and three specific and important aspects of the moral-exemplar intervention: (a) its comparative advantage over existing social-psychological interventions aimed at conflict resolution and intergroup reconciliation, (b) its content and conditions, and (c) implications for future theorizing and research targeting prosocial changes in attitudes and intergroup behavior.

由于许多社会和心理障碍，冲突的解决和群体间的和解很难实现，例如人们认为与自己群体为敌的社会群体的成员大多是坏的，基本上都是一样的。在本文中，我们介绍了一种新颖的干预措施，旨在通过让人们了解有关个人冒着生命的某些重要方面的风险来拯救其他社会群体成员的生命的故事（道德模范）来挑战这些信念）。这种道德模范干预的效果已经在几个冲突后环境中使用真正的敌对团体的成员进行了实地实验进行了测试。我们讨论了这些研究的结果以及道德模范干预的三个具体而重要的方面：（a）它相对于旨在解决冲突和群体间和解的现有社会心理干预的比较优势，（b）其内容和条件，以及（ c) 对未来针对态度和群体间行为的亲社会变化的理论化和研究的影响。