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Zagefka H, dela Paz E, Macapagal MEJ, Ghazal S, Bilgen E, Cheso D. Fearing the Trojan horse: Motives attributed to the outgroup and rejection of outgroup help. JOURNAL OF APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 2023. [DOI: 10.1111/jasp.12961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
Affiliation(s)
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- Royal Holloway University of London Egham UK
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Hirschberger G, Imhoff R, Kahn DT, Hanke K. Making sense of the past to understand the present: Attributions for historical trauma predict contemporary social and political attitudes. GROUP PROCESSES & INTERGROUP RELATIONS 2021. [DOI: 10.1177/1368430221990105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
Research indicates that the memory of collective trauma influences attitudes towards contemporary social and political issues. We suggest that the specific attributions for trauma that members of victim and perpetrator groups make provide a more nuanced understanding of this relationship. Thus, we constructed and validated a measure of attributions for the Holocaust. Then, we ran a preregistered study on representative samples in Germany ( N = 504) and Israel ( N = 469) to examine whether attributing the Holocaust to essentialist or contextual causes influences attitudes towards the immigration crisis and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Results indicated that, among Germans, attributing the Holocaust to German character was associated with positive attitudes to immigration via collective guilt. Among Israelis, attributions to German character were associated with negative attitudes to non-Jewish immigration, a hawkish stance in the Palestinian–Israeli conflict, and pro-Israel attitudes via a sense of perpetual victimization. Results reveal how attributions about past trauma affect contemporary social and political attitudes among victims and perpetrators.
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- Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Herzliya, Israel
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- University of Applied Management Studies, Mannheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
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