Collective guilt assignment is uncorrelated with personal guilt

Evidence

As can be seen in Table 2, willingness to assign collective guilt to others based on their category membership was not significantly correlated with either the state or trait personal guilt subscales; it was also not related to the table 2. — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 188

Categorization

• XREF: This rules out personal guilt-proneness as an alternative explanation for collective guilt, relevant to whether identification mode rather than disposition drives group-based guilt. — connects to: Collective guilt is a separate construct from personal guilt — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 187; Collective guilt could distract people from confronting personal guilt. — Janet K. Swim and Deborah L. Miller, White Guilt: Its Antecedents and…, 146

Broader Connections

• Collective guilt is a separate construct from personal guilt #expands (0.93) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 187
• Collective guilt could distract people from confronting personal guilt. #complicates (0.88) — Janet K. Swim and Deborah L. Miller, White Guilt, 146