Understanding collective guilt: Tolerance for contradiction and state-trait dissociations in perceived overlap between ingroup members
Understanding collective guilt: Tolerance for contradiction and state-trait dissociations in perceived overlap between ingroup members
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理解集体内疚：容忍内群体成员之间感知到的重叠中的矛盾和状态特质分离
DOI：
10.1007/s12144-020-00684-6
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Karasawa Minoru
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作者：
Brown Christina M.;Goto Nobuhiko;Tsukamoto Saori;Karasawa Minoru
集体内疚是一种基于群体的情感，从认识到内部群体伤害了他人延伸而来，并且已知可以通过与内部群体相关的因素（例如，内部群体认同，美化）和事件的具体细节（例如，时间距离，持续受害）来预测。目前的研究测试了内部群体成员处理不一致信息的能力差异是否也会影响他们的集体内疚感。在三项研究中，矛盾容忍度的性状变异正向预测集体内疚。因为这种关系不能用特定的内群体感知来解释，所以可能是对矛盾的容忍使内群体成员能够忍受内疚的厌恶情绪体验，而不是做出防御性的反应。这三项研究还提供了证据，表明内部群体成员认为过去的犯罪者和现在的犯罪者之间的重叠程度代表了对内部群体不法行为的防御反应，有助于减少集体内疚，这种反应与过去和现在的内部群体成员之间连续性的特质水平的感知是分开的。在未来的集体内疚研究中，历史犯罪者和当前内部群体之间的感知重叠可能是防御反应的一个有价值的衡量标准。
Collective guilt is a group-based emotion that extends from recognizing the ingroup has harmed others, and it is known to be predicted by factors related to the ingroup (e.g., ingroup identification, glorification) and by specific details of the event (e.g., temporal distance, ongoing victimization). The current research tested if differences in ingroup members’ broader ability to handle inconsistent information also contribute to their experience of collective guilt. In three studies, trait variation in tolerance for contradiction positively predicted collective guilt. Because the relationship could not be explained by specific ingroup perceptions, it may be that tolerance for contradiction enables ingroup members to endure the aversive emotional experience of guilt instead of responding defensively. All three studies also provided evidence that the level of overlap ingroup members perceive between the historical perpetrators and the current ingroup represents a defensive reaction to ingroup wrongdoing that contributes to reduced collective guilt, and this reaction is separate from trait-level perceptions of continuity between past and present ingroup members. Perceived overlap between historical perpetrators and the current ingroup may be a valuable measure of defensive responding in future research on collective guilt.