Americans’ willingness to acknowledge past injustice supports public redress.

Evidence

Among our strengths as a nation is our willingness to acknowledge imperfection as well as to struggle for a more just society. It is in the spirit of continuing that struggle that the Commission recommends several forms of redress. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 206

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Collective guilt mediates the link between perceived injustice and policy endorsement. — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 460; Collective guilt mediates perception of past wrongdoing and later apology support — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 822; Acknowledging in-group responsibility for past atrocities increases infrahumanization of the victim group — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2108 (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Collective guilt mediates the link between perceived injustice and policy endorsement. — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 460; Collective guilt mediates perception of past wrongdoing and later apology support — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 822; Acknowledging in-group responsibility for past atrocities increases infrahumanization of the victim group — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2108 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Acknowledging in-group responsibility for past atrocities increases infrahumanization of the victim group #complicates (0.78) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2108
• Loyalty and authority crowd out harm and fairness after in-group atrocities #complicates (0.72) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2149