National identification crucially shapes perpetrators’ emotional responses to their group’s misdeeds.

Evidence

We use the example of the Netherlands and Indonesia as a way of examining the emotions experienced by perpetrators of negative historical actions. One of our central arguments is that identification or involvement with the national group plays a crucial role in understanding these emotional experiences and the action tendencies associated with them. — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 682

Categorization

• QUESTION: The chapter is building toward the glorification-attachment distinction — this frames why identification matters.
• XREF: connects to: The nature of in-group identification moderates people’s reactions to their group’s harm of others. — Emanuele Castano, On the Perils of Glorifying the…, 57; National identification’s implicit, pervasive nature predicts responses to historical group actions. — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 684; Adopting the perpetrator’s perspective reverses which identifiers feel most guilty — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 1065 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• The nature of in-group identification moderates people’s reactions to their group’s harm of others. #expands (0.93) — Emanuele Castano, On the Perils of Glorifying the In-group, 57
• Group identification can both enable and block feelings of group-based guilt #expands (0.88) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 16
• National identification’s implicit, pervasive nature predicts responses to historical group actions. #expands (0.85) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 684
• General in-group identification does not predict moral disengagement toward victims #complicates (0.83) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2113
• Glorification and attachment separately predict reactions to national misdeeds #expands (0.82) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 90
• Escalating Israeli-Palestinian conflict did not alter how identification modes predict group guilt #qualifies (0.80) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 80
• Adopting the perpetrator’s perspective reverses which identifiers feel most guilty #exemplifies (0.78) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 1065
• Ingroup identification strength moderates whether group-level or individual-level threats drive attitudes. #expands (0.76) — Blake M. Riek, Eric W. Mania, and Samuel L. Gaertner, Intergroup Threat and Outgroup Attitudes, 151