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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Saud, Lina H

Titel

Differentiating Dominant and Minority Group Responses to Ingroup Transgressions: A Cross-Status Collective Guilt Model

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Collective guilt is an aversive emotional reaction to ingroup blame that motivates corrective action. Extensive research has examined collective guilt among dominant group members for historical atrocities such as slavery or colonialism. To date, minorities’ experiences of collective guilt have been largely ignored. This dissertation tests for the first time a Cross-Status Model of Collective Guilt. Yielding to group blame was expected to predict collective guilt and intentions to repair harm from ingroup transgressions regardless of group status. Unique moderators of acquiescing to group blame were expected: ingroup identification would moderate reactions to blame for dominants, while linked fate and awareness of disadvantage would moderate responses to blame for minorities. White (dominant; N = 913) and Muslim (minority; N = 1073) Americans were recruited to assess responses to ingroup blame for violent extremists from their respective groups. Collective guilt was pervasive among Muslims. Whites resembled Muslims in their yielding to group blame, where the three aforementioned moderators behaved similarly across status in three serial moderated mediation models. Data from a replication sample of Muslims (N = 536) reaffirmed the patterns found in the original sample. The implications of these findings are discussed.