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    Are the Military Ideologically-Driven? Explicit and Implicit Political Biases Among Armed Forces in Colombia
    (2024-09) Ugarriza Uribe, Juan Esteban; Ortiz-Ayala, Alejandra; Acuña, Diana C.; Salazar, Mónica A.; Quispe, Rafael C.
    What motivates the military to fight in contemporary wars? Literature tells us soldiers are typically willing to engage in risky military actions due to their interpersonal loyalty to their comrades, and the sense of fighting for a moral cause. By building up a novel database of a representative sample of members from Colombian Armed Forces who actually fought in the battlefield against Marxist guerrillas between 1990 and 2017, and relying on computer-based tests, here we systematically measure both explicit and implicit war motivations. Our results suggest that ideology remains a systematic stimulus in soldiers’minds, both at conscious and unconscious levels, therefore affecting key behavioral aspects such as cohesion, task performance, and adherence to specific tactic and strategic principles on the ground. Prevalence of such stimulus even after active confrontation has ended might also point at a potential explanatory factor to veterans’social and political behavior.
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    The Neuropsychological Impact of Conflict: An Analysis of Implicit Prejudice among Victims, Ex-combatants and Communities in Colombia
    (2024-09) Ugarriza Uribe, Juan Esteban; Acuña, Diana C.; Salazar, Mónica A.; Quispe, Rafael C.
    Armed conflict impacts individuals at psychological level not only by causing illness, but also by affecting the mechanisms of information processing, opinion formation and decision-making. These effects negatively influence the effectiveness and durability of inter-group reconciliation approaches that ignore the protracted nature of biologically-driven implicit biases. By means of a computer-based Implicit Association Test (IAT), we tested pre-cognitive intergroup prejudices of 251 war victims, former guerrillas and victims in Colombia. We find that while ex-guerrillas identify themselves with the victims, there is a systematic bias against former combatants among communities and even more so among war victims. These results show not only that these groups have fundamentally different understandings of their immediate past of violence, but also that these conceptions are neurologically-imprinted in their cognitive and emotional processing mechanisms. We conclude on the need to deal with the neuropsychological effects of war on people’s dispositions and perceptions in postconflict societies.