Highly identified members suppress guilt by shielding the group from threats.

Evidence

Group members who are highly identified with the group should be eager to shield it from threats and should tend to express less collective guilt. — Torsten Masson and Markus Barth, The identification-guilt paradox…, 64

Categorization

• XREF: The defensive threat-shielding motive here maps onto the ‘glorification as defensive investment’ leg of the reader’s attachment-to-glorification research question. — connects to: High identification with a group suppresses collective guilt, not only enables it. — Torsten Masson and Markus Barth, The identification-guilt paradox…, 63; Threat is felt on behalf of one’s membership groups, not just oneself; Highly identified group members resist feeling collective guilt by reinterpreting events — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 2278 (+6 more)

Related

• Strongly identified group members resist collective guilt more than weakly identified ones. (similarity 0.92)
• High identification with a group suppresses collective guilt, not only enables it. (similarity 0.91)
• Highly identified group members minimize collective guilt by morally reinterpreting ingroup wrongs (similarity 0.90)
• Group identification can simultaneously raise and lower group-based guilt. (similarity 0.88)
• Studies conflict on whether high identification predicts more or less guilt (similarity 0.87)
• Highly identified group members resist feeling collective guilt by reinterpreting events (similarity 0.87)
• Group identification can both enable and block feelings of group-based guilt (similarity 0.86)
• Strongest ingroup identifiers are least likely to feel collective guilt (similarity 0.86)
• In-group identification relates to collective guilt in a non-linear fashion. (similarity 0.86)
• Guilt requires self-categorizing as a group member (similarity 0.85)
• Guilt grows monotonically harder to feel as identification strengthens (similarity 0.84)
• Imagining the perpetrator’s viewpoint raises guilt only in low identifiers (similarity 0.84)
• Affective group attachment, not mere membership perception, drives non-linear responses to collective guilt (similarity 0.84)
• Group members’ responses to threats to group image depend on how strongly they identify (similarity 0.83)
• Mild group identifiers feel guilty when harm is distant and done by others (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Threat is felt on behalf of one’s membership groups, not just oneself #expands (0.85)
• Highly identified group members minimize collective guilt by morally reinterpreting ingroup wrongs #expands (0.82) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2278
• Highly identified group members resist feeling collective guilt by reinterpreting events #expands (0.80) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2278
• Those who identify with the whole as its defenders cannot be guilty #expands (0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 357
• Group identification can simultaneously raise and lower group-based guilt. #qualifies (0.78) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 25
• People feel emotions for group members and deny their group’s harmful acts #corroborates (0.75) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2092
• Threatened groups deny outgroups distinctively human emotions #expands (0.72) — Walter G. Stephan, Oscar Ybarra, Kimberly Rios Morrison, Intergroup Threat Theory, 422