Heavier regional war victimization raises acceptance of collective guilt.

Evidence

Two indicators of overall regional exposure to war atrocities have a significant (model 2, Table 4) or borderly significant (model 3, Table 4) positive impact on collective guilt acceptance, thus corroborating the core assumption of the collective vulnerability approach. In other words, the acceptance of collective guilt is higher in more heavily victimized regions than in nonvictimized regions. — Sandra Penic, Guy Elcheroth, and Dario Spini, When Is Collective Exposure to War…, 109

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Communal war exposure, not personal victimization, drives collective guilt acceptance — Sandra Penic, Guy Elcheroth, and Dario Spini, When Is Collective Exposure to War…, 2; Collective victimization typically suppresses acceptance of collective guilt — Sandra Penic, Guy Elcheroth, and Dario Spini, When Is Collective Exposure to War…, 8; Members of victimized groups can still accept collective guilt for in-group harms. — Sandra Penic, Guy Elcheroth, and Dario Spini, When Is Collective Exposure to War…, 15 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Experiencing symmetric intergroup violence predicts greater acceptance of one’s group’s collective guilt. #expands (0.95) — Sandra Penic, Guy Elcheroth, and Dario Spini, When Is Collective Exposure to War…, 37
• Asymmetric violence suppresses guilt while symmetric victimization of both groups raises it. #expands (0.90) — Sandra Penic, Guy Elcheroth, and Dario Spini, When Is Collective Exposure to War…, 111
• Asymmetric violence plus segregated contact plausibly drives rejection of collective guilt #complicates (0.88) — Sandra Penic, Guy Elcheroth, and Dario Spini, When Is Collective Exposure to War…, 162
• Reminders of a group’s own victimization history increase guilt assigned to others #complicates (0.82) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 2145
• Guilt rejection is not an unavoidable reaction to collective victimization. #qualifies (0.80) — Sandra Penic, Guy Elcheroth, and Dario Spini, When Is Collective Exposure to War…, 151
• Reminding a victimized group of old harms raises guilt assigned to a new enemy. #complicates (0.78) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 1976