Intergroup Identity Perceptions and their Implications for Intergroup Forgiveness

The social psychology of collective victimhood

“…Similarly, in Northern Ireland increased ingroup identification mediated the link between competitive victimhood and justification of the ingroup's past use of violence (Noor, Brown, & Prentice, ). Additionally, in post‐conflict‐settings in Northern Ireland and Chile, the more the erstwhile enemy groups identified with their own groups, the less willing they were to consider forgiving each other (Noor, Brown, Gonzalez et al, ; Noor, Brown, Taggart, Fernandez, & Coen, ). Strength of identification also has consequences for health outcomes related to collective victimhood.…”

Peace vision and its socio-emotional antecedents: The role of forgiveness, trust, and inclusive victim perceptions

“…Over the last decade, a growing body of social psychological research has explored intergroup forgiveness as a means for shifting the focus of intergroup relations from the painful past to a positive future (Hewstone et al, 2004;Hewstone, Cairns, Voci, Hamberger, & Niens, 2006;Noor, Brown, Gonzalez, Manzi, & Lewis, 2008;Noor, Brown, & Prentice, 2008;Noor, Brown, Taggart, Fernandez, & Coen, 2010;Wohl & Branscombe, 2005).…”

Political constructions of a cross-community identity in a divided society: how politicians articulate Northern Irishness

“…The basis for this prediction comes from the literature on moderate political attitudes and Northern Irish identification (Tonge & Gomez, 2015). Relative to Irish and British, Northern Irish is perceived to be the most inclusive category, and one that suggests ambivalence to the constitutional question that forms to fulcrum of division within the Assembly chamber (Moor et al, 2010).…”

“…Conforming to the theories of common ingroup identities (Gaertner & Dovidio, 2012, Gaertner & Dovidio, 2014, Northern Irish identifiers tend to have a greater level of contact with out-group members, suggesting that this identity is perceived to be inclusive of members of both communities such that the salience of political division is less profound for them when compared with Irish and British identifiers. As this is the most inclusive of the major national identity categories in the region (Moor et al, 2010) it can be expected these identifiers have preferences for parties that are moderate and centrist on the spectrum of unionist to nationalist. Recently, this inference has been supported using statistical analysis of survey data (Tonge & Gomez, 2015).…”