Lower group identification predicts more collective guilt and stronger reparation advocacy

Evidence

Based on the literature concerning guilt at the interpersonal level, it is clear that guilt is often associated with efforts to make reparations (e.g., Tangney & Fischer, 1995). For guilt at the group level, a similar relation has been suggested (e.g., Branscombe et al., 2002), and some studies have provided support for this notion (Branscombe et al., this volume, Chapter 2; Doosje et al., 1998; Swim & Miller, 1999). Generally speaking, people who are low in identification with the perpetrator group experience more guilt and are more likely to advocate reparations to the harmed group. Low identifiers may perceive such reparations as more important and just than people who identify strongly with their group. However, it is also possible that high identifiers perceive the difficulty of making reparations as greater than low identifiers and this perception may result in lower levels of guilt (Schmitt et al., this volume, Chapter 5). — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 724

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: High group identifiers weigh ingroup costs of reparations more heavily than low identifiers. — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 587; Lower national identification predicts more collective guilt and reparation support; higher identification predicts less. — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 689; High national identification blocks acceptance of the group’s immoral history; low attachment enables it. — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 688 (+13 more)

Broader Connections

• Strongest ingroup identifiers are least likely to feel collective guilt #corroborates (0.97) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 1170
• Highly identified group members minimize collective guilt by morally reinterpreting ingroup wrongs #expands (0.88) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2278
• Collective guilt should track strong identification but actually tracks weak identification #corroborates (0.88) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 828
• Highly identified group members resist feeling collective guilt by reinterpreting events #expands (0.87) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2278
• Ingroup identification reduces collective guilt only when group history is ambiguous. #qualifies (0.82) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 201
• Group identification can both enable and block feelings of group-based guilt #qualifies (0.80) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 16
• In-group identification relates to collective guilt in a non-linear fashion. #qualifies (0.80) — Torsten Masson and Markus Barth, The identification-guilt paradox…, 25
• 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