Accepting collective responsibility makes both assigning and accepting guilt feasible.

Evidence

Both the acceptance of collective guilt subscale (r = .44, p < .01) and the assignment of collective guilt subscale (r = .45, p < .01) were significantly correlated with the whole group accountability subscale. To the extent that the idea of collective responsibility is accepted, then both assignment to another group or acceptance of guilt on the part of ingroup members are psychologically feasible. The acceptance and assignment subscales were also reliably correlated with each other (r = .30, p < .05). These subscale correlations, despite the focal difference in the group referent for the table 1. — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 160

Categorization

• XREF: Whole-group accountability acting as the psychological precondition for both acceptance and assignment echoes the general notion that a shared-responsibility worldview underlies group-based emotion. — connects to: Collective guilt acceptance and assignment rest on different psychological conditions. — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 92; Collective guilt requires admitting in-group responsibility and spurs reparations — Emanuele Castano, On the Perils of Glorifying the…, 65; Gender groups validate the distinction between assigning and accepting collective guilt. — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 213 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Perpetrator and victim groups favor accepting versus assigning guilt #corroborates (0.88) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 152
• Gender groups validate the distinction between assigning and accepting collective guilt. #expands (0.82) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 213
• Collective guilt requires admitting in-group responsibility and spurs reparations #expands (0.78) — Emanuele Castano, On the Perils of Glorifying the In-group, 65