Victimhood beliefs are linked to willingness to engage in intergroup contact with the former adversary through empathy and trust

IF 4 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations Pub Date : 2022-04-14 DOI:10.1177/13684302221084859

Shpend Voca, S. Graf, Mirjana Rupar

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Abstract

After intergroup conflicts end, beliefs about past suffering of the ingroup compared to an outgroup influence relations between former adversaries. In Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, we simultaneously examined the effects of inclusive victimhood (i.e., a belief that both the ingroup and a former adversary suffered similarly) and competitive victimhood (i.e., a belief that the ingroup suffered more than a former adversary) on willingness to engage in contact with a former adversary, a precursor of positive changes in postconflict societies. In one correlational (NAlbanians = 159; NCroats = 227) and two experimental studies (NAlbanians = 161; NCroats = 341, preregistered), inclusive victimhood was linked to higher willingness to engage in contact with former adversaries through higher empathy (Studies 1 to 3) and trust (Studies 1 and 2). In contrast, competitive victimhood was associated with lower willingness to engage in contact through lower empathy (Study 1) and trust (Studies 1 and 3). We discuss the practical implications of our findings for interventions in postconflict societies.

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受害者信念与通过同理心和信任与前对手进行群体间接触的意愿有关

在群体间冲突结束后，与外部群体相比，内部群体对过去痛苦的看法会影响以前对手之间的关系。在科索沃和波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那，我们同时研究了包容性受害者(即相信内部团体和前对手遭受相似的痛苦)和竞争性受害者(即相信内部团体比前对手遭受更多的痛苦)对与前对手接触的意愿的影响，这是冲突后社会积极变化的前兆。在一个相关的(阿尔巴尼亚人= 159;克罗地亚人= 227)和两项实验研究(阿尔巴尼亚人= 161;NCroats = 341，预登记)，包容性受害者与通过更高的同理心(研究1至3)和信任(研究1和2)与前对手接触的更高意愿相关。相反，竞争性受害者与通过更低的同理心(研究1)和信任(研究1和3)进行接触的更低意愿相关。我们讨论了我们的研究结果对冲突后社会干预的实际意义。

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Group Processes & Intergroup Relations PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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期刊介绍： Group Processes & Intergroup Relations is a scientific social psychology journal dedicated to research on social psychological processes within and between groups. It provides a forum for and is aimed at researchers and students in social psychology and related disciples (e.g., organizational and management sciences, political science, sociology, language and communication, cross cultural psychology, international relations) that have a scientific interest in the social psychology of human groups. The journal has an extensive editorial team that includes many if not most of the leading scholars in social psychology of group processes and intergroup relations from around the world.