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

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Voca, S. - Graf, Sylvie - Rupar, Mirjana
Victimhood beliefs are linked to willingness to engage in intergroup contact with a former adversary through empathy and trust.
Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. Roč. 26, č. 3 (2023), s. 696-719. ISSN 1368-4302. E-ISSN 1461-7188
Grant CEP: GA ČR(CZ) GA20-01214S
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68081740
Klíčová slova: competitive victimhood * empathy * inclusive victimhood * trust * willingness to engage in intergroup contact
Obor OECD: Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Impakt faktor: 4.4, rok: 2022
Způsob publikování: Omezený přístup
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1177/13684302221084859

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 (n(Albanians) = 159, n(Croats) = 227) and two experimental studies (N-Albanians = 161, N-Croats = 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.
Trvalý link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0337648