Asymmetric violence suppresses guilt while symmetric victimization of both groups raises it.

Evidence

The results show that the communal-level exposure to asymmetric violence (Attacks on civilians) significantly reduces guilt acceptance (model 4), and its effect is even stronger after controlling for Battles (model 5). This finding follows the commonly assumed negative impact of collective victimization on collective guilt. However, a different pattern is found for the communal-level exposure to symmetric violence: controlling for Attacks on civilians, a higher frequency of both battles (model 5) and Shared victimization (model 6) significantly increases acceptance of guilt. In the model with both indicators of symmetric violence (model 7), only the impact of Shared victimization remains significant, suggesting that higher acceptance is primarily found in regions where war affected local inhabitants (and not only combatants) of both conflicted groups. — Sandra Penic, Guy Elcheroth, and Dario Spini, When Is Collective Exposure to War…, 111

Categorization

• XREF: Core finding relevant to the reader’s research question; connects to guilt-acceptance literatures on in-group victimhood and competitive victimhood. — connects to: Economic deprivation, not asymmetric violence alone, drives guilt rejection. — Sandra Penic, Guy Elcheroth, and Dario Spini, When Is Collective Exposure to War…, 126; Guilt rejection is not an unavoidable reaction to collective victimization. — Sandra Penic, Guy Elcheroth, and Dario Spini, When Is Collective Exposure to War…, 151; Reminders of past victimization suppress a group’s collective guilt for its own current harmdoing. — Johanna Ray Vollhardt and Michelle Sinayobye Twali, Emotion-Based Reconciliation Requires…, 44 (+9 more)

Related

• Economic deprivation, not asymmetric violence alone, drives guilt rejection. (similarity 0.91)
• Guilt rejection is not an unavoidable reaction to collective victimization. (similarity 0.91)
• Experiencing symmetric intergroup violence predicts greater acceptance of one’s group’s collective guilt. (similarity 0.91)
• Reminders of past victimization suppress a group’s collective guilt for its own current harmdoing. (similarity 0.88)
• Guilt acceptance is rooted in communal not national shared victimization. (similarity 0.88)
• Communal war exposure, not personal victimization, drives collective guilt acceptance (similarity 0.87)
• Collective victimization typically suppresses acceptance of collective guilt (similarity 0.85)
• Directly experienced violence promotes collective guilt acceptance more than mediated narratives do. (similarity 0.84)
• Collective guilt is constructive only when experienced by the perpetrator, not the victim, group. (similarity 0.83)
• Heavier regional war victimization raises acceptance of collective guilt. (similarity 0.83)
• Asymmetric violence plus segregated contact plausibly drives rejection of collective guilt (similarity 0.82)
• The ingroup’s own suffering suppresses guilt even when it sees itself as responsible (similarity 0.82)
• Members of victimized groups can still accept collective guilt for in-group harms. (similarity 0.82)
• Those who read unfavorable group history become less willing to apologize (similarity 0.81)
• Reminders of a group’s own victimization history increase guilt assigned to others (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Experiencing symmetric intergroup violence predicts greater acceptance of one’s group’s collective guilt. #corroborates (0.95) — Sandra Penic, Guy Elcheroth, and Dario Spini, When Is Collective Exposure to War…, 37
• Devaluing victims as weak targets suppresses guilt in wrongdoers. #expands (0.80) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1411
• Perpetrator and victim groups favor accepting versus assigning guilt #expands (0.78) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 152
• Perceiving victims and perpetrators as one human group lowers guilt assignment. #expands (0.75) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 1937
• Devaluing victims enables harm without guilt or remorse #corroborates (0.75)
• The ingroup’s own suffering suppresses guilt even when it sees itself as responsible #contradicts (0.72) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 2145
• Group identification can simultaneously raise and lower group-based guilt. #expands (0.72) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 25
• Conflict escalation lowers group-based guilt and raises exonerating cognitions over time. #complicates (0.72) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 87
• Victimization leads targets to either adopt more or less prejudice against weaker others. #complicates (0.72)