Full acknowledgement of in-group atrocity raises guilt and willingness to pay reparations.

Evidence

When denial is not possible, individuals are forced to face the reality of their misdeeds. Doosje, Branscombe, Spears, and Manstead (1998, Study 2) showed that reminding Dutch citizens of the brutal consequences of their colonization of Indonesia led to an increase of guilt, as compared with those who were given a more lenient historical narrative of such a colonization. And the increased guilt predicted a willingness to provide reparations. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2093

Categorization

• XREF: Corroborates the denial-psychology thread from the Allport reassessment — how perpetrator groups manage guilt; connects to the reader’s interest in Islamophobia mechanism. — connects to: Widely shared collective guilt has produced formal apologies and reparations — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 54; Perceived reparations importance depends on judged harm severity and violated moral value. — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 590
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2093