Participating in a Digital-History Project Mobilizes People for Symbolic Justice and Better Intergroup Relations Today.

IF 4.8 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Psychological Science Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-17 DOI:10.1177/09567976251331040

Ruth Ditlmann, Berenike Firestone, Oguzhan Turkoglu

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Abstract

Awareness of past atrocities is widely seen as critical for restoring justice and building resilient democracies. Going beyond information provision, an increasing number of memorial sites, museums, and historical archives offer opportunities for public participation. Yet little empirical evidence exists on the impact of participation in the collective remembrance of past atrocities. Two experimental studies, a field-in-the-lab study with 552 university students in Germany and an online randomized control trial with 900 digital workers in Germany, showed that participating in a large-scale, digital-history project about Nazi persecution increased peoples' collective-action intentions for further commemoration activities and for activities that strengthen intergroup relations today. These effects persisted for 2 weeks. The findings suggest that digital-history projects can motivate collective action that is critical for symbolic justice and positive intergroup relations, thus contributing to well-functioning, pluralistic democracies.

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参与数字历史项目动员人们争取象征正义和更好的群体间关系。

人们普遍认为，意识到过去的暴行对于恢复正义和建设有弹性的民主国家至关重要。除了提供信息之外，越来越多的纪念场所、博物馆和历史档案为公众参与提供了机会。然而，关于参与集体纪念过去暴行的影响，几乎没有经验证据。两项实验研究，一项是对552名德国大学生进行的实验室实地研究，另一项是对900名德国数字工作者进行的在线随机对照试验，结果表明，参与一个关于纳粹迫害的大规模数字历史项目，增加了人们对进一步纪念活动和加强当今群体间关系的活动的集体行动意图。这些效果持续了2周。研究结果表明，数字历史项目可以激发集体行动，这对象征正义和积极的群体间关系至关重要，从而有助于良好运作的多元化民主。

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