Collective guilt correlates strongly with perceived reparation obligations toward Indigenous Australians

Evidence

In a study of high school students in the Northern Territory (Roger, 1999), it was found that there was a link between collective guilt and support for various ways of repairing the harm. Indeed, collective guilt was very highly correlated (r = .9) with a global measure of belief that the government and individual non-Indigenous Australians owe something to Indigenous Australians because of the previous harmful treatment. — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 818

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Widely shared collective guilt has produced formal apologies and reparations — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 54; Acknowledging group privilege triggers guilt that motivates reparative policy support — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 426; Whites feeling collective guilt may attempt actual compensation or partial reparation to restore equity — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 470 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Collective guilt predicts reparative motivation while collective shame predicts distancing. #corroborates (0.92) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 346
• Collective guilt can be functional by motivating reparative action #corroborates (0.90) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 229
• Collective guilt requires admitting in-group responsibility and spurs reparations #corroborates (0.90) — Emanuele Castano, On the Perils of Glorifying the In-group, 65
• Collective guilt functions adaptively by motivating reparation and preventing repeated intergroup conflict #corroborates (0.88) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 87
• Collective guilt acceptance is a validated measure mediating inequality salience and reparations #expands (0.85) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 148
• Collective guilt mediates perception of past wrongdoing and later apology support #corroborates (0.82) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 822
• Reparation difficulty has an inverted-U effect on collective guilt #qualifies (0.78) — Torsten Masson and Markus Barth, The identification-guilt paradox…, 70
• Collective guilt peaks at moderate rather than low or high reparation difficulty #qualifies (0.76) — Michael T. Schmitt, Daniel A. Miller, Nyla R. Branscombe, and Jack W. Brehm, The Difficulty of Making Reparations…, 4
• The perceived cost of reparations functions as a rhetorical deterrent to feeling guilt #complicates (0.75) — Michael T. Schmitt, Daniel A. Miller, Nyla R. Branscombe, and Jack W. Brehm, The Difficulty of Making Reparations…, 79