Conflict escalation lowers group-based guilt and raises exonerating cognitions over time.

Evidence

The high match between the two cohorts used in the studies, both taken from the same participant pool, makes any attribution of the results in terms of possible differences between the two samples rather unlikely. More probable explanations are that the decrease in group-based guilt and the increase in exonerating cognitions reflect some real temporal changes due to the intensification of the conflict. There are several possible mediating mechanisms that could explain how intensification of the conflict causes a decrease in group-based guilt. For example, conflict may lead people to focus on the in-group and its needs rather than on the out-group’s anguish, or it may lead to a reassessment of the history of the conflict in the light of current events. — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 87

Categorization

• QUESTION: Directly relevant to the question of whether glorification is threat-driven and whether there is a measurable tipping point — these two suggested mediators are candidates but untested.
• XREF: connects to: Escalating Israeli-Palestinian conflict did not alter how identification modes predict group guilt — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt: Modes…, 80; Conflict escalation alters even retrospective moral judgments of past in-group harms. — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt: Modes…, 86; Escalating conflict reduces in-group acknowledgment of past wrongdoings — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt: Modes…, 130 (+8 more)

Related

• Escalating conflict reduces in-group acknowledgment of past wrongdoings (similarity 0.93)
• Escalating Israeli-Palestinian conflict did not alter how identification modes predict group guilt (similarity 0.93)
• Conflict escalation alters even retrospective moral judgments of past in-group harms. (similarity 0.90)
• Groups respond in real time to current rather than historical in-group wrongdoings (similarity 0.85)
• Those who read unfavorable group history become less willing to apologize (similarity 0.84)
• Studies conflict on whether high identification predicts more or less guilt (similarity 0.83)
• Reminders of a group’s own victimization history increase guilt assigned to others (similarity 0.83)
• Attachment to the in-group and glorification predict opposite reactions to one’s group’s moral violations. (similarity 0.83)
• Ongoing historical harms trigger defensive denial where ended ones allow acknowledgment (similarity 0.83)
• Glorification predicts exonerating cognitions that blunt group-based guilt. (similarity 0.83)
• Guilt grows monotonically harder to feel as identification strengthens (similarity 0.81)
• Reminders of past victimization suppress a group’s collective guilt for its own current harmdoing. (similarity 0.80)
• Defensive Germans superficially accept guilt while warding off latent responsibility (similarity 0.80)
• Perceived in-group moral violations trigger defensive cognitive distortions. (similarity 0.80)
• Glorification predicts defensive denial of the in-group’s moral violations. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Escalating conflict reduces in-group acknowledgment of past wrongdoings #corroborates (0.92) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 130
• Glorification predicts exonerating cognitions that blunt group-based guilt. #expands (0.85) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 48
• Highly identified group members minimize collective guilt by morally reinterpreting ingroup wrongs #corroborates (0.82) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2278
• Highly identified group members resist feeling collective guilt by reinterpreting events #corroborates (0.80) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2278
• Perceived in-group moral violations trigger defensive cognitive distortions. #corroborates (0.78) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 46