Participants judged in-group wrongs they had no personal role in
Evidence
The two other historical events were the forced evacuation of Palestinians from the cities of Ramleh and Lidya (Lod) during the 1948 war and the 1994 killing of 29 Arab worshippers in the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron by Baruch Goldstein, a Jewish settler from the West Bank. None of our participants had any personal involvement in any of the three historical events depicted in the studies—the earliest having taken place 52 years prior to the study and the most recent 6 years prior to it. Thus, these three events were part of the group histories of the participants rather than being part of their own personal history. — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 62
Categorization
- XREF: Directly matches reading question (3) — whether reactions to the group’s own moral violations split by attachment vs. glorification even when no personal involvement exists.