Collective guilt requires admitting in-group responsibility and spurs reparations

Evidence

For instance, these findings suggest that guilt, contrary to shame, has positive consequences; it motivates the individual to repair the wrongdoing. Accordingly, the experience of collective guilt has been found to be positively related to attitudes toward the victims, as well as to intentions to provide reparations (e.g., Doosje, Branscombe, Spears, & Manstead, 1998). Not surprisingly, collective guilt (and personal guilt) seems to be dependent on recognizing that the in-group is responsible for the wrongdoings under scrutiny, as well as recognizing the illegitimacy of such actions. — Emanuele Castano, On the Perils of Glorifying the In-group, 65

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does collective shame as a blocker explain moral disengagement’s role in the glorification effects covered later in the paper?
• XREF: connects to: Collective guilt is felt when the self’s group illegitimately harmed another group — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 0; Widely shared collective guilt has produced formal apologies and reparations — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 54; Accepting collective guilt can motivate building a more inclusive moral identity. — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 58 (+22 more)

Broader Connections

• Collective guilt can be functional by motivating reparative action #corroborates (0.95) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 229
• Guilt requires self-categorizing as a group member #qualifies (0.82) — Torsten Masson and Markus Barth, The identification-guilt paradox…, 20
• Collective guilt peaks at moderate rather than low or high reparation difficulty #complicates (0.78) — Michael T. Schmitt, Daniel A. Miller, Nyla R. Branscombe, and Jack W. Brehm, The Difficulty of Making Reparations…, 4
• Reparation difficulty has an inverted-U effect on collective guilt #complicates (0.78) — Torsten Masson and Markus Barth, The identification-guilt paradox…, 70
• Acknowledging group privilege triggers collective rather than individual guilt #responds-to (0.75) — Janet K. Swim and Deborah L. Miller, White Guilt, 25
• Small restorative acts against vast harms serve as personal absolution for collective guilt #complicates (0.74) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1318
• Rejecting whole-group accountability is a way people avoid collective guilt #complicates (0.72) — Michael T. Schmitt, Daniel A. Miller, Nyla R. Branscombe, and Jack W. Brehm, The Difficulty of Making Reparations…, 17