“…Some studies show that conflict‐related personal victimization predicts less outgroup tolerance (Canetti‐Nisim, Halperin, Sharvit, & Hobfoll, ), decreased forgiveness (Myers, Hewstone, & Cairns, ), and less support for legal responses to human rights violations (Elcheroth, ). However, these responses depend on other factors such as the level of violence in the community and the individual's ideological orientation (Elcheroth, ; Sharvit, Bar‐Tal, Raviv, Raviv, & Gurevich, ). Moreover, under some circumstances personal victimization may even motivate prosocial attitudes—depending on the specific meaning individuals attach to these experiences (Klar et al., ; Vollhardt, 2009b).…”