On one such occasion, they have a nasty encounter in which personal insults occur. Each conflict becomes a clash of contending realties, with opponents convinced it is factually based. Getting conflict parties to question the objective reality of their conflict permits them to identify aspects of it truly in opposition from those that are not. Once they realize they are not in total conflict, they can begin to cooperate in turning the conflicting interests into a problem to be solved. They reconceptualize reality as something they produce and can thus reconstruct toward cooperative relations.
Enemy images are the most harmful and resistant form of constructed conflict reality.
One believes and expects the worst of an enemy.