Uncritical in-group glorification, not mere attachment, drives justification of wrongdoing

Evidence

Using this distinction, Roccas et al. (2006) conducted a study among Israelis and found that in-group attachment was negatively related to justificatory processes for Israeli mistreatments of Palestinians and positively to self-reported guilt. In spite of being correlated with attachment, in-group glorification showed the opposite relationship to both of these variables. The more in-group glorification, the more justification of the wrongdoings and the less guilt. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2115

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates the general ingroup/outgroup mechanism thread from the Allport reassessment: it splits identification into attachment vs. glorification, predicting exactly which form of ingroup feeling licenses harm — a distinction that maps onto patriotism vs. nationalism. — connects to: National glorification but not attachment blocks critical evaluation of ingroup wrongdoing. — Bernhard Leidner et al., Ingroup Glorification, Moral…, 25; Group glorification suppresses justice via moral disengagement whereas attachment does not — Bernhard Leidner et al., Ingroup Glorification, Moral…, 56; Glorification may be reducible through political rhetoric without harming core group attachment. — Bernhard Leidner et al., Ingroup Glorification, Moral…, 115
• ADDENDUM: Mechanism-level split (attachment vs glorification) is directly relevant to the ingroup-favoritism mechanisms in the sacrifice article and the identity-signaling thread of the immodesty piece.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2115