Does group identification facilitate or prevent collective guilt about past misdeeds? Resolving the paradox

Klein, Olivier; Licata, Laurent; Pierucci, Sabrina

doi:10.1111/j.2044-8309.2011.02028.x

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“…Research studying the effects of identification on collective moral emotions found that such emotions could not be observed among people with either the lowest or the highest levels of national identification (Klein, Licata, & Pierucci, 2011).…”

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“…In Experiment 1, we expected that higher levels of linguistic abstractness would elicit more intense expressions of negative moral emotions. As literature on collective emotions (Branscombe & Miron, 2004;Klein, Licata, & Pierucci, 2011;Roccas, Klar, & Liviatan, 2006) demonstrates that identification constitutes one of the important determinants of experiencing collective moral emotions, in Experiment 2 we additionally measured the strength of identification as a potential moderator of the experience of negative emotions. We expected that people with higher levels of identification would generally react to abstract information about their ingroup's misdeeds with higher levels of collective moral emotions 1 .…”

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Language of Responsibility. The Influence of Linguistic Abstraction on Collective Moral Emotions

Bilewicz

Stefaniak

Witkowska

et al. 2017

Psychology of Language and Communication

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Two experiments investigated the effects of linguistic abstractness on the experience of collective moral emotions. In Experiment 1 participants were presented with two scenarios about ingroup misbehavior, phrased using descriptive action verbs, interpretative action verbs, adjectives or nouns. The results show that participants experienced slightly more negative moral emotions with higher levels of linguistic abstractness. In Experiment 2 we also tested for the influence of national identification on the relationship between linguistic abstractness and emotional reactions. Additionally, we expanded the number of scenarios. Experiment 2 replicated the earlier pattern, but found larger differences between conditions. The strength of national identification did not moderate the observed effects. The results of this research are discussed within the context of the linguistic category model and psychology of collective moral emotions.

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Language of Responsibility. The Influence of Linguistic Abstraction on Collective Moral Emotions

Bilewicz

Stefaniak

Witkowska

et al. 2017

Psychology of Language and Communication

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“…The acceptance of collective responsibility has been taken as evidence of young children's subjective identification with their social groups (Bennett & Sani, 2008;Tomasello et al, 2012). However, the relationship between the strength of adults' identification and their acceptance of collective responsibility is complex (Klein, Licata, & Pierucci, 2011). It would be interesting to look at how the strength of children's identification predicts their willingness to accept collective responsibility.…”

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Do young children accept responsibility for the negative actions of ingroup members?

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Vaish

Tomasello

2016

Cognitive Development

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This study investigated whether young children accept responsibility for the negative actions of ingroup members. Five-year-old children watched a transgressor break someone else's valued possession. Depending on condition, this transgressor either belonged to the same group as the child or a different group from the child. Coding of children's nonverbal behaviour indicated that they displayed more signs of guilt (but not other negative emotions) when the transgressor belonged to their own group than the other group. Furthermore, when the transgressor belonged to their own group, children were more likely to say that their own group should apologise for the damage and that they themselves should try to repair the broken object. Children's connections to their groups are thus so profound that they appear to feel responsible for the negative actions of their group members even when they had no personal involvement in the harm those actions caused.

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“…ii) The question if national identification moderates the relationship between experienced social identity threat and group-based shame (see among others Doosje et al, 1998;Klein et al, 2011;Roccas, Klar, & Liviatan, 2006) was not central in this paper. Nevertheless, we evaluated this effect, controlling for gender and age.…”

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Shame on me? Shame on you! Emotional reactions to cinematic portrayals of the Holocaust

Kopf‐Beck

Gaisbauer

Dengler

2017

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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The media are playing an increasingly important role in teaching the public about the history of the Holocaust. In Germany, however, Holocaust documentaries have been criticized for eliciting unintended, adverse reactions among the viewers, such as distancing from the victims or calling for closing the books on the past. This criticism stems from the concern that such reactions pose an obstacle to critical-constructive engagement and coming to terms with history. This study examines the interplay between cinematic representation of the Holocaust, film-induced defensive strategies, and group-based emotions of shame. Based on a content analysis of six different film excerpts, we investigated the mediating effects of four defensiveness strategies (distancing from victims, victim blaming, closeness to perpetrators, and rejection of the relevance of the Holocaust) on group-based shame in a sample of 224 pupils from Germany's third post-war generation in a quasi-experimental field study. The results reveal the complexity of film-portrayals which can foster as well as hinder group-based shame and thus, a constructive dealing with past injustice.Keywords: group-based shame, Holocaust, defensiveness strategies, TV-documentaries, content analysis, film-effects ZusammenfassungDie Medien spielen eine immer wichtigere Rolle in der Vermittlung der Geschichte des Holocaust. Holocaust-Dokumentationen sahen sich in der Vergangenheit in Deutschland dem Vorwurf ausgesetzt, nicht-intendierte und unerwünschte Reaktionen unter den Zuschauerinnen und Zuschauern hervorzurufen, wie beispielsweise eine Distanzierung von der Opferseite oder der Forderung, einen Schlussstrich unter die Geschichte zu ziehen. Diese Kritik entstammt der Befürchtung, solche Reaktionen könnten eine kritisch-konstruktive Auseinandersetzung mit der Geschichte erschweren. Die vorgestellte Studie untersucht das Zusammenspiel zwischen unterschiedlichen filmischen Darstellungsformen des Holocaust, durch diese hervorgerufene Abwehrmechanismen und gruppenbasierte Formen von Scham. Ausgehend von einer Inhaltsanalyse von sechs unterschiedlichen Filmausschnitten untersuchten wir in einer quasi-experimentellen Feldstudie die Mediationseffekte von vier verschiedenen Abwehrmechanismen (Distanzierung von der Opferseite, Beschuldigung der Opfer, Nähe zur Täterseite und Zurückweisung der Relevanz des Holocaust) auf gruppenbasierte Scham anhand einer Stichprobe von 224 Schülerinnen und Schülern der dritten Nachkriegsgeneration in Deutschland. Die Ergebnisse beschreiben die Komplexität von Filmdarstellungen des Holocausts und legen dar, wie diese eine konstruktive Auseinandersetzung mit Geschichte hemmen, aber auch unterstützen können.Schlüsselwörter: gruppenbasierte Scham, Holocaust, Verteidigungsstrategien, TV-Dokumentationen, Inhaltsanalyse, Film-Effekte Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2017, Vol. 5(2), 367-395, doi:10.5964/jspp.v5i2.355 Received: 2014-03-30. Accepted: 2017-02-08. Published (VoR): 2017 Handling Editor: Johanna Ray Vollhardt, Department of ...

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Does group identification facilitate or prevent collective guilt about past misdeeds? Resolving the paradox

Cited by 42 publications

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Language of Responsibility. The Influence of Linguistic Abstraction on Collective Moral Emotions

Language of Responsibility. The Influence of Linguistic Abstraction on Collective Moral Emotions

Do young children accept responsibility for the negative actions of ingroup members?

Shame on me? Shame on you! Emotional reactions to cinematic portrayals of the Holocaust

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