Attachment makes individuals vulnerable to guilt over in-group misdeeds.

Evidence

Attachment to the group expresses commitment to the group and inclusion of the group in one’s self-concept. This makes people who are strongly attached to their in-group particularly vulnerable to feeling morally responsible and distressed when exposed to possibly incriminating information on the group’s infractions. — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 43

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines attachment and derives its distinct consequence — moral responsiblity and guilt.
• XREF: connects to: In-group glorification drives justification of wrongdoings while attachment drives guilt — Emanuele Castano, On the Perils of Glorifying the…, 49; Framing attachment around ideals rather than current traits raises group-based guilt. — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt: Modes…, 128; Critical attachment primes stronger group-based guilt than conventional attachment. — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt: Modes…, 113 (+9 more)

Related

• Attachment only predicts in-group guilt once glorification is statistically removed. (similarity 0.95)
• Critical attachment produces guilt through refusing to exonerate the group (similarity 0.94)
• Attachment to the in-group predicts guilt while glorification predicts defensiveness (similarity 0.93)
• Critical attachment primes stronger group-based guilt than conventional attachment. (similarity 0.92)
• Controlling for glorification reveals attachment’s true link to group guilt. (similarity 0.91)
• Framing attachment around ideals rather than current traits raises group-based guilt. (similarity 0.91)
• Glorification’s correlation to attachment suppresses attachment’s observable effects. (similarity 0.91)
• Affective group attachment, not mere membership perception, drives non-linear responses to collective guilt (similarity 0.90)
• Attachment to the in-group and glorification predict opposite reactions to one’s group’s moral violations. (similarity 0.90)
• Group identification can simultaneously raise and lower group-based guilt. (similarity 0.90)
• Glorification predicts exonerating cognitions that blunt group-based guilt. (similarity 0.90)
• Glorification enables moral disengagement while attachment resists in-group wrongdoing justification. (similarity 0.87)
• Attachment can be experimentally induced toward an ideal rather than actual group (similarity 0.87)
• Glorification predicts defensive denial of the in-group’s moral violations. (similarity 0.87)
• Group identification can both enable and block feelings of group-based guilt (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• In-group glorification drives justification of wrongdoings while attachment drives guilt #corroborates (0.95) — Emanuele Castano, On the Perils of Glorifying the In-group, 49
• Attachment to the in-group predicts guilt while glorification predicts defensiveness #corroborates (0.95) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 7
• Attachment to the in-group and glorification predict opposite reactions to one’s group’s moral violations. #corroborates (0.92) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 2
• Glorification enables moral disengagement while attachment resists in-group wrongdoing justification. #corroborates (0.90) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 138
• Framing attachment around ideals rather than current traits raises group-based guilt. #expands (0.85) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 128
• Critical attachment primes stronger group-based guilt than conventional attachment. #expands (0.85) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 113
• Critical attachment produces guilt through refusing to exonerate the group #expands (0.80) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 91
• Controlling for glorification reveals attachment’s true link to group guilt. #expands (0.80) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 44
• Affective group attachment, not mere membership perception, drives non-linear responses to collective guilt #expands (0.80) — Torsten Masson and Markus Barth, The identification-guilt paradox…, 26
• In-group glorification but not attachment predicts justifying harm against out-groups #expands (0.80) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2115
• Guilt requires self-categorizing as a group member #qualifies (0.75) — Torsten Masson and Markus Barth, The identification-guilt paradox…, 20