Apology as aggression control: Its role in mediating appraisal of and response to harm.

Ohbuchi, Ken-ichi; Kameda, Masuyo; Agarie, Nariyuki

doi:10.1037//0022-3514.56.2.219

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“…This social practice is widely observed in interpersonal, intergroup, and even cross-national contexts. In psychology, studies on interpersonal apologies and forgiveness (e.g., Ohbuchi et al, 1989;McCullough et al, 1997;McCullough et al, 1998;Hannon et al, 2010;Schumann, 2018; for a review, see Fehr et al, 2010) have outnumbered those on intergroup apologies (see Philpot, 2010, andWohl, 2013, for reviews). The research imbalance would not be a problem if the two kinds of apologiesinterpersonal and intergroup oneswere, in essence, the same.…”

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The Association between ideology and resistance to governmental apology depends on political knowledge

Inamasu

Kohama

Mifune

et al. 2023

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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This study examines the relationship between ideology and resistance to the government's apology to Asian victims of Japan's colonial rule policy, which varies according to political knowledge. Based on existing research, because only a limited percentage of voters consider politics to be ideology based, it is expected that the association between ideology and resistance to intergroup apologies by one's own government differs according to their level of political knowledge. We selected three issues of political apologies: colonial rule in Asian countries, comfort women, and the massacre of Korean people based on false rumors at the time of the 1923 Kanto Earthquake; thereafter, we conducted an online survey of a panel selected by Nikkei Research Inc. The results suggest that the relationship between ideology and resistance among voters to political apologies varies with the level of political knowledge, as expected. On the contrary, social dominance orientations (SDO) were associated with resistance to apology, regardless of their level of political knowledge. We then tested the reproducibility of this finding by conducting a follow-up test on registered users of a crowdsourcing service after conducting a preregistration. In addition, we also measured general attitudes toward personal apologies and neighboring countries victimized by Japan's colonialist policies as factors that might predict resistance to apologies even among the politically uninformed. The association between ideology, SDO, and resistance to governmental apologies was generally replicated in this study.

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The Association between ideology and resistance to governmental apology depends on political knowledge

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Mifune

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Japanese Journal of Political Science

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“…On the one hand, a transgressor could adopt an approach tendency, such as genuinely expressing guilt and remorse, offering apologies to and seeking forgiveness from the victim, and providing material and/or psychological compensation ( 13 – 16 ). Extant research in social psychology and affective science has shown that being responsible for an interpersonal transgression not only elicits guilt in the transgressor but also leads the transgressor to adopt the approach tendency ( 7 , 16 – 20 ).…”

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The competition dynamics of approach and avoidance motivations following interpersonal transgression

Shen,

Chen,

et al. 2023

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Two behavioral motivations coexist in transgressors following an interpersonal transgression—approaching and compensating the victim and avoiding the victim. Little is known about how these motivations arise, compete, and drive transgressors’ decisions. The present study adopted a social interaction task to manipulate participants’ (i.e., the transgressor) responsibility for another’s (i.e., the victim) monetary loss and measure the participants’ tradeoff between compensating the victim and avoiding face-to-face interactions with the victim. Following each transgression, participants used a computer mouse to choose between two options differing in the amount of compensation to the victim and the probability of face-to-face contact with the victim. Results showed that as participants’ responsibility increased, 1) the decision weights on contact avoidance relative to compensation increased, and 2) the onset of the contact-avoidance attribute was expedited and that of the compensation attribute was delayed. These results demonstrate how competing social motivations following transgression evolve and determine social decision-making and shed light on how social-affective state modulates the dynamics of decision-making in general.

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The psychological contracts of violation victims: A post‐violation model

2015

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Summary Organizations may fail to keep their commitments to their employees, at times leading to psychological contract violation. Although many victims of violation remain with their employer despite such adverse experiences, little research exists on their responses in the aftermath of violation. This paper develops a post‐violation model to explain systematically how violation victims respond to and cope with violation and the effects this process has on their subsequent psychological contract. Central to post‐violation are the victims' beliefs regarding the likelihood of violation resolution and the factors affecting it. The model specifies how the victim engages in a self‐regulation process that results in an array of potential psychological contract outcomes. Possible outcomes include reactivation of the original pre‐violation contract, the formation of a new contract that may be more or less attractive than the original, or a state of dissolution wherein the victim fails to form a functional psychological contract with the employer. The research and practical implications of this model are discussed. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Apology as aggression control: Its role in mediating appraisal of and response to harm.

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The Association between ideology and resistance to governmental apology depends on political knowledge

The Association between ideology and resistance to governmental apology depends on political knowledge

The competition dynamics of approach and avoidance motivations following interpersonal transgression

The psychological contracts of violation victims: A post‐violation model

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