Glorification’s correlation to attachment suppresses attachment’s observable effects.

Evidence

Teasing apart the effects of attachment and glorification poses a methodological challenge. The two modes of identification are conceptually similar (both refer to identification with a group) and empirically positively correlated. Thus, a manipulation that elicits one mode of identification is likely to elicit the other mode as well. Because glorification suppresses the effects of attachment on identification, a manipulation that elicits attachment and glorification simultaneously would be powerless to test our core hypothesis that attachment without glorification causes group-based guilt. — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 96

Categorization

  • QUESTION: The claim that glorification suppresses attachment — is this suppression statistical or causal? Relevant to the reader’s threshold and reversibility questions.
  • XREF: connects to: Attachment and glorification form two distinct latent factors — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt: Modes…, 58; Attachment only predicts in-group guilt once glorification is statistically removed. — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt: Modes…, 95; Attachment to the in-group predicts guilt while glorification predicts defensiveness — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt: Modes…, 7 (+4 more)

Broader Connections