In-group glorifiers linguistically minimize accounts of their own side’s atrocities in written summaries.

Evidence

In-group glorifiers’ defensive responses also emerged in their communication about the events. … When asked to summarize in writing the events described in the fictitious article, in-group glorifiers who read about the USA (in-group) being responsible for the torture and death of several Iraqis (as compared to those who read about an out-group being responsible) tended to minimize the events, as indicated by a greater use of negative connectives (e.g., however, but, although) and a lesser use of positive connectives (e.g., and, because). … They also used words that minimized the intentionality of the actions and the perception of causality (Slawuta, Leidner, & Castano, forthcoming). — Emanuele Castano, On the Perils of Glorifying the In-group, 55

Categorization

• SHARE: Good for a colleague working on linguistic analysis of moral disengagement - the connective-word coding scheme is a tangible method.
• XREF: connects to: High glorifiers minimize and deflect their own group’s atrocities. — Bernhard Leidner et al., Ingroup Glorification, Moral…, 26; In-group glorification drives dehumanization and minimization which reduce justice support for own-side atrocities. — Emanuele Castano, On the Perils of Glorifying the…, 54; Counter-jihad writers systematically minimize documented Muslim wartime deaths — Matt Carr, You Are Now Entering Eurabia, 47 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• High glorifiers minimize and deflect their own group’s atrocities. #corroborates (0.95) — Bernhard Leidner et al., Ingroup Glorification, Moral…, 26
• In-group glorification drives dehumanization and minimization which reduce justice support for own-side atrocities. #expands (0.88) — Emanuele Castano, On the Perils of Glorifying the In-group, 54
• Discourse gives ingroup problems less detail than outgroup ones #corroborates (0.82)
• Chroniclers of in-group atrocities shift attention to their own group’s suffering #expands (0.80)
• Counter-jihad writers systematically minimize documented Muslim wartime deaths #exemplifies (0.78) — Matt Carr, You Are Now Entering Eurabia, 47
• Officials minimized atrocity by comparing it to worse atrocities. #exemplifies (0.76) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2342
• Racist discourse tends to favor the ingroup and derogate the outgroup #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1062
• Group glorification increases emotional minimization of outgroup victims’ suffering. #complicates (0.74) — Bernhard Leidner et al., Ingroup Glorification, Moral…, 50
• People minimize discrimination attributions for themselves while readily applying them to others #corroborates (0.73) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 131