Crimes of the Past: Defensive Temporal Distancing in the Face of Past In-Group Wrongdoing  

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Peetz, Johanna ; Gunn, Gregory R. ; Wilson, Anne E.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 36 no. 5 (May 2010), page 598– 611.
Topik: Guilt; Social Identity; Defensive Processes; Subjective Distance
Fulltext: Pers Soc Psychol Bull-2010-Peetz-598-611.pdf (365.96KB)

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Relegating past in-group transgressions to ancient history might deflect threat to collective identity. Germans (but not Canadians) judged the Holocaust to be more subjectively remote in time when they read only about German-perpetrated atrocities than when this threat was mitigated. Greater subjective distance predicted lower collective guilt, which, in turn, predicted less willingness to make amends (Study 1). Distancing under threat was more pronounced among defensive Germans who felt unjustly blamed by other nations (Study 2). In Study 3, the authors examined the causal role of subjective time. Nondefensive Germans induced to view the Holocaust as closer reported more collective guilt and willingness to compensate. In contrast, defensive Germans reported less collective guilt after the closeness induction. Taken together, the studies demonstrate that how past wrongs are psychologically situated in time can play a powerful role in people’s present-day reactions to them.

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