Collective guilt should track strong identification but actually tracks weak identification

Evidence

If high identifiers are expected to seek a positive social identity, we might expect that they will seek to minimize negative feelings about their group, especially when the circumstances (ambiguous history) make this a viable strategy. However, if collective guilt is genuinely a group-based phenomenon, it should be associated with high identification with relevant groups and not low identification. This is because high identifiers are precisely the people who are expected to exhibit the thoughts, feeling, and actions that reflect the norms of those groups. Establishing precisely which groups we can expect to be relevant becomes the problem. — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 828

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Lower national identification predicts more collective guilt and reparation support; higher identification predicts less. — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 689; The identification-to-guilt causal direction may actually run in reverse — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 697; Lower group identification predicts more collective guilt and stronger reparation advocacy — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 724 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Strongest ingroup identifiers are least likely to feel collective guilt #expands (0.95) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 1170
• Group identification can both enable and block feelings of group-based guilt #expands (0.85) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 16
• Identification relates to collective guilt along a nonlinear inverted-U curve. #qualifies (0.85) — Torsten Masson and Markus Barth, The identification-guilt paradox…, 15
• Studies conflict on whether high identification predicts more or less guilt #corroborates (0.85) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 23
• In-group identification relates to collective guilt in a non-linear fashion. #qualifies (0.82) — Torsten Masson and Markus Barth, The identification-guilt paradox…, 25
• Broad national identification measures fail to predict collective guilt reliably #corroborates (0.80) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 858
• Group identification can simultaneously raise and lower group-based guilt. #expands (0.80) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 25