The identification-to-guilt causal direction may actually run in reverse

Evidence

A number of explanations for this finding can be offered, however. First, the relationship between identification and guilt could be reversed to what was postulated. Feelings of guilt might result in low levels of identification. Second, it is possible that low identifiers perceive harmonious intergroup relations as more important than do high identifiers and think that expressing collective guilt may improve the relations between the groups. Finally, it is possible that high identifiers think that it is more difficult to make reparations than do low identifiers; as a consequence, high identifiers may not experience high levels of guilt (Schmitt, Branscombe, & Brehm, this volume, Chapter 5). — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 697

Categorization

• QUESTION: This competing-causal-direction discussion matters for whether the glorification-attachment distinction survives reverse-causality critique.
• XREF: connects to: Identification relates to collective guilt along a nonlinear inverted-U curve. — Torsten Masson and Markus Barth, The identification-guilt paradox…, 15; Adopting the perpetrator’s perspective reverses which identifiers feel most guilty — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 1065; Collective guilt should track strong identification but actually tracks weak identification — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 828 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Collective guilt should track strong identification but actually tracks weak identification #expands (0.88) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 828
• Adopting the perpetrator’s perspective reverses which identifiers feel most guilty #expands (0.85) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 1065
• Imagining the perpetrator’s viewpoint raises guilt only in low identifiers #exemplifies (0.83) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 1061
• Guilt grows monotonically harder to feel as identification strengthens #corroborates (0.83) — Torsten Masson and Markus Barth, The identification-guilt paradox…, 71
• Studies conflict on whether high identification predicts more or less guilt #corroborates (0.80) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 23
• The source of disapproval reverses who feels most collective guilt #exemplifies (0.80) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 721
• Identification relates to collective guilt along a nonlinear inverted-U curve. #complicates (0.78) — Torsten Masson and Markus Barth, The identification-guilt paradox…, 15