Victims’ stereotyped perception of their own persecution impairs their response
Evidence
Another aspect of the `psychology of the Jews’, hinted at by Adorno in notes he wrote on the drafting of the report, also failed to become an item in the programme: the Jews’ stereotyped perception of the situation confronting them, which made it more difficult for them to find an appropriate reaction, or prevented them from doing so altogether. The usual practice of the Institute, self-censorship viewed as a matter of strategy, continued. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 390
Categorization
- XREF: Directly continues the earlier kept claim that victims of persecution develop distorting stereotypes that endanger survival. — connects to: Allport predicted victims’ response style depends on their attribution tendencies; Chroniclers of in-group atrocities shift attention to their own group’s suffering; Victims of persecution develop distorting stereotypes that endanger their own survival chances (+1 more)
- DEEPTHINKING: A genuinely difficult idea: victim psychology itself becomes a research object the Institute cannot safely publish.
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Allport predicted victims’ response style depends on their attribution tendencies; Chroniclers of in-group atrocities shift attention to their own group’s suffering; Victims of persecution develop distorting stereotypes that endanger their own survival chances (+1 more)