National glorification and attachment differentially predict support for intergroup conflict resolution: Scrutinizing cross‐country generalizability

Li, Mengyao; Watkins, Hanne M; Hirschberger, Gilad; Kretchner, Mabelle; Leidner, Bernhard; Baumert, Anna

doi:10.1002/ejsp.2881

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“…Lastly, when considering "safety confidence," we raise the exploratory hypothesis that because this aspect of safety combines the anticipation of potential confrontation with a sense of personal safety (as it reflects confidence in one's ability to remain safe), it could be related to both forms of national identification, with a potentially stronger association for glorification. This is consistent with the notion that ingroup glorification, rather than attachment, is linked to more hostile intergroup attitudes (e.g., Leidner, 2015;Li et al, 2023;Roccas et al, 2006;Selvanathan & Leidner, 2020).…”

Section: Facets Of Perceived Safetysupporting

confidence: 88%

“…Feeling safe in day-to-day life was related to both increased attachment and glorification (see Table 3). Attachment and glorification were strongly correlated with each other, replicating past work (e.g., Li et al, 2023;Roccas et al, 2006).…”

Section: Bivariate Correlationssupporting

confidence: 84%

“…In this way, experiences of peace at one level can have downstream consequences for other levels. Thus, according to this framework, it's possible for personal experiences of peace to influence how people construe their relationship with their national ingroup, a relationship which has been shown to be a robust predictor of attitudes toward conflict within and between nations (Li et al, 2023). By the same logic, it's possible that feelings of negative and positive safety at the personal level can have spillover across levels, influencing broader attitudes towards one's ingroup at the level of the nation.…”

Section: From Positive and Negative Peace To Positive And Negative Sa...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Research has shown that glorification is associated with greater expressed justification of past harmful intergroup actions, lower guilt experienced as a result of these actions, greater support for retributive justice and conflict perpetuation (Leidner, 2015;Leidner & Castano, 2012;Leidner et al, 2018Leidner et al, , 2010Li et al, 2016;Roccas et al, 2006;Rovenpor et al, 2019Rovenpor et al, , 2016Selvanathan & Leidner, 2020). Conversely, attachment (when controlling for glorification) leads to generally more positive intergroup responses, such as more expression of guilt, greater support for conflict resolution, and greater support for restorative justice (Leidner et al, 2018;Li et al, 2023;Roccas et al, 2006;Selvanathan & Leidner, 2020). Despite this wealth of research on the social consequences of national attachment and glorification, until the present investigation, little research has considered the antecedents of national attachment and glorification.…”

Section: Modes Of National Identificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Increased Perceived Safety in Day-to-Day Life Relates to Critical National Identification

Syropoulos,

Law,

Leidner

2024

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National identification consistently predicts attitudes within and between groups. Research indicating that threat perceptions often lead to compliance with ingroup authorities suggests that heightened threat perceptions may contribute to stronger submissive national identification. However, the impact of feeling safe on a more critical (in contrast to submissive) sense of national identification remains largely unexplored. Drawing on social safety theory and attachment theory, the present investigation examined whether individual differences in feeling of safety relate to increased critical and submissive/blind forms national identification. Studies 1A-1B and 2A-2B utilized nationally representative data from large cross-national surveys, finding that greater perceived safety related to increased pride in, emotional attachment to and closeness to one’s nation. In Studies 3-5 we find that feeling safe in daily life and believing that one is capable of protecting oneself relate to more ingroup attachment and glorification. Notably, the association for feeling of safety and ingroup attachment was larger than that for ingroup glorification. This investigation offers consistent evidence for a positive association between how safe people feel and national identification, highlighting that more research is needed to better understand how feeling of safety could influence intergroup processes.

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Section: Facets Of Perceived Safetysupporting

confidence: 88%

Section: Bivariate Correlationssupporting

confidence: 84%

Section: From Positive and Negative Peace To Positive And Negative Sa...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Modes Of National Identificationmentioning

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Increased Perceived Safety in Day-to-Day Life Relates to Critical National Identification

Syropoulos,

Law,

Leidner

2024

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“…A link may be drawn here between glorifying narratives and ingroup glorification (Roccas et al., 2006), which has been associated with systematic denial of ingroup‐perpetrated harms, lack of outgroup perspective taking, dehumanisation of outgroup members and the legitimisation of violence against outgroup members (e.g. Bilali, 2013; Leidner et al., 2010; Li et al., 2023). Importantly, some recent studies have begun to explore how exposure to narratives may shape, direct and contextualise ingroup glorification by providing it with content.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Identifying stories of ‘us’: A mixed‐method analysis of the meaning, contents and associations of national narratives constructed by Americans

Choi,

Liu

2023

Euro J Social Psych

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How do lay individuals reconstruct, appropriate or resist culturally sanctioned narratives about their nation's past? The current study examined this question through an open‐ended survey administered to a US sample, stratified by age and gender (N = 399). We identified three major historical narratives that were popular among Americans. Specifically, we identified positive narratives of the nation's progress over time and glorifying narratives of American exceptionalism, alongside a popular counter‐narrative that was critical of the nation as reproducing ongoing cycles of injustice. Representations of national origins were significantly more salient for the narratives of Progress and Glorification, while more recent and lived events were salient for Critical narratives. Progress and Critical narratives were both associated with a constructive orientation to national identity, while Glorifying narratives were associated with blind patriotism. Critical and Glorifying narratives were consistently opposed in their associated political attitudes and in their patterns of endorsement across party affiliations. Overall, it appeared that narratives of progress were most popular and least polarised. We discuss the implications of these findings through the perspective that narratives provide dynamic content for identity construction as well as the means for articulating resistance to hegemony within specific historical and political contexts.

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Out‐group help in the time of Covid‐19 and intergroup reconciliation in the Western Balkans

Castano,

Čehajić‐Clancy,

Leidner

et al. 2024

Euro J Social Psych

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In March 2021, Serbia made the unprecedented announcement to offer free Covid‐19 vaccination to citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and notably to Bosniaks, against whom three decades earlier Serbia had waged a bloody war. How was this policy appraised and, most importantly, did the policy appraisal impact reconciliation? We report here the results of a longitudinal investigation amid a representative sample of Bosniak youth (N = 450). Results suggest that a positive appraisal of this actual, state‐level policy, predicted improvement on a series of intergroup reconciliation indicators (e.g., trust in the out‐group, forgiveness for past violence, hope for future relationship), particularly so amid those who are strongly attached to their Bosniak in‐group.

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National glorification and attachment differentially predict support for intergroup conflict resolution: Scrutinizing cross‐country generalizability

Cited by 6 publications

References 45 publications

Increased Perceived Safety in Day-to-Day Life Relates to Critical National Identification

Increased Perceived Safety in Day-to-Day Life Relates to Critical National Identification

Identifying stories of ‘us’: A mixed‐method analysis of the meaning, contents and associations of national narratives constructed by Americans

Out‐group help in the time of Covid‐19 and intergroup reconciliation in the Western Balkans

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