Emanuele Castano — On the Perils of Glorifying the In-group: Intergroup Violence, In-group Glorification, and Moral Disengagement

18 published claims from this book.

• Chroniclers of in-group atrocities shift attention to their own group’s suffering
• Collective guilt requires admitting in-group responsibility and spurs reparations
• Excluding people from the human community precedes mass violence.
• Guilt targets specific acts while shame taints the entire self
• Images of distant suffering provoke moral engagement and military intervention.
• In-group glorification drives dehumanization and minimization which reduce justice support for own-side atrocities.
• In-group glorification drives justification of wrongdoings while attachment drives guilt
• In-group glorifiers linguistically minimize accounts of their own side’s atrocities in written summaries.
• In-group perpetrated misdeeds ironically heighten victim dehumanization
• Moral reactions to suffering shift when one’s own group is the responsible party.
• Naming our own group patriotism and theirs nationalism enables violent in-group dynamics
• National self-glorifying discourse resembles undesirable self-aggrandizing parenting
• Participants rated Aborigines’ capacity for uniquely human emotions after reading about the history.
• People attribute uniquely human secondary emotions to out-group members less than to in-group members.
• Perpetrator identity shifts victim assessment through moral disengagement, most among glorifiers
• The infrahumanization measure underlies the study design manipulating perceived impact.
• The nature of in-group identification moderates people’s reactions to their group’s harm of others.
• Vicarious group responsibility for others’ suffering triggers shame or guilt.