Identity Centrality and In-Group Superiority Differentially Predict Reactions to Historical Victimization and Harm Doing

Abstract: Two U.S. studies report a differential effect of identity centrality and in-group superiority on reactions to in-group victimization and in-group harm-doing. Study1 (N = 80) found that higher identity centrality predicted less justification for freely-recalled in-group victim events, whereas higher in-group superiority predictedmore justification for freely-recalled in-group harm-doing events. Study 2 (N = 105) reexamined these findings in specific contexts of historical victimization(Pearl Harbor) and harm-doing (Hiroshima and Nagasaki), finding that in-group superiority was a predictor of reactions to historical in-group harm-doing(justification, emotional reactions, importance of events), whereas centrality was a predictor of reactions to historical in-group victimization. https://www.ijcv.org/index.php/ijcv/article/view/2923

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Identity Centrality and In-Group Superiority Differentially Predict Reactions to Historical Victimization and Harm Doing ; volume:6 ; number:2 ; day:26 ; month:10 ; year:2012 ; International journal of conflict and violence ; 6, Heft 2 (26.10.2012)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Rezarta Bilali

Further information

• DOI: 10.4119/ijcv-2923
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020062210480855510812
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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