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Abstract. Collective guilt is an emotion that people experience when their social group is perceived as having perpetrated immoral acts. When collective guilt is experienced, it motivates people to make amends for the harm done. This chapter reviews the previous fifteen years of research on collective guilt in social psychology.
Jan 30, 2014 · First, group guilt can stimulate pro-social behavior in outgroups, and group members will take group-level compensatory actions (Ferguson & Branscombe, 2014), such as apologizing, compensating ...
The current chapter focuses on social psychology of collective guilt. Looking back on the past 15 years of work on collective guilt in social psychology, it is clear that people can and do experience guilt for the actions of their social ingroups. It is also clear that collective guilt can be part of the solution for resolving intergroup conflicts. Like any tool though, collective guilt has ...
- Mark A. Ferguson, Nyla R. Branscombe
- 2014
Sep 7, 2021 · The projection of guilt by association creates barriers to connecting meaningfully with others. Moving past the pitfalls of collective guilt requires forgiveness, or letting go of one's suffering ...
Because people can and do think of themselves as members of a social group (Tajfel & Turner, 1986), reminders of the ingroup's actions against another group can generate emotional responses. It follows that the antecedents of emotions such as collective guilt will not be rooted in an individualistic conception of the self, but will require ...
Mar 11, 2020 · 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 ...
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We examine the conditions that facilitate feelings of collective guilt, and consider the prevalent historical and contemporary conditions that inhibit such guilt. Specifically, we outline the important role that self-categorisation as a member of a group that is responsible for illegitimately harming another group plays in inducing collective guilt. We also consider strategies that legitimise ...
