Critical attachment produces guilt through refusing to exonerate the group
Evidence
Similarly, high attachment, when separated from glorification, is negatively associated with the use of exonerating cognitions, and the positive link between attachment and guilt is at least partly mediated by the failure to use exonerating cognitions. In summary, separating attachment from glorification served to reveal the effects of critical attachment. Drawing on Staub (1997) and on Petty and Cacioppo (1990), we reason that people who are critically attached to the group do not endorse exonerating cognitions and consequently are likely to feel guilty for the group’s wrongdoings. — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 91
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Affective group attachment, not mere membership perception, drives non-linear responses to collective guilt — Torsten Masson and Markus Barth, The identification-guilt paradox…, 26; Attachment makes individuals vulnerable to guilt over in-group misdeeds. — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt: Modes…, 43; Critical attachment primes stronger group-based guilt than conventional attachment. — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt: Modes…, 113 (+7 more)
Related
- Attachment makes individuals vulnerable to guilt over in-group misdeeds. (similarity 0.94)
- Critical attachment primes stronger group-based guilt than conventional attachment. (similarity 0.94)
- Attachment only predicts in-group guilt once glorification is statistically removed. (similarity 0.92)
- Controlling for glorification reveals attachment’s true link to group guilt. (similarity 0.92)
- Attachment to the in-group predicts guilt while glorification predicts defensiveness (similarity 0.91)
- Glorification predicts exonerating cognitions that blunt group-based guilt. (similarity 0.91)
- Group identification can simultaneously raise and lower group-based guilt. (similarity 0.91)
- Affective group attachment, not mere membership perception, drives non-linear responses to collective guilt (similarity 0.90)
- Framing attachment around ideals rather than current traits raises group-based guilt. (similarity 0.90)
- Attachment to the in-group and glorification predict opposite reactions to one’s group’s moral violations. (similarity 0.88)
- Glorification’s correlation to attachment suppresses attachment’s observable effects. (similarity 0.88)
- Group identification can both enable and block feelings of group-based guilt (similarity 0.87)
- Attachment can be experimentally induced toward an ideal rather than actual group (similarity 0.87)
- Studies conflict on whether high identification predicts more or less guilt (similarity 0.87)
- High identification with a group suppresses collective guilt, not only enables it. (similarity 0.86)
Broader Connections
- Critical attachment primes stronger group-based guilt than conventional attachment.
#corroborates(0.95) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 113 - Framing attachment around ideals rather than current traits raises group-based guilt.
#corroborates(0.85) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 128 - In-group glorification drives justification of wrongdoings while attachment drives guilt
#expands(0.80) — Emanuele Castano, On the Perils of Glorifying the In-group, 49 - In-group glorification but not attachment predicts justifying harm against out-groups
#corroborates(0.80) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2115 - Glorification enables moral disengagement while attachment resists in-group wrongdoing justification.
#corroborates(0.80) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 138 - Group identification can both enable and block feelings of group-based guilt
#qualifies(0.75) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 16 - Priming critical versus conventional attachment primes categorically distinct group attributes.
#expands(0.75) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 111 - Scapegoating’s psychodynamic core transposes personal guilt onto symbolic sacrificial targets.
#complicates(0.70)