TY - JOUR
T1 - The Role of Comparative Victim Beliefs in Predicting Support for Hostile versus Prosocial Intergroup Outcomes
AU - Vollhardt, Johanna Ray
AU - Cohrs, J. Christopher
AU - Szabó, Zsolt Péter
AU - Winiewski, Mikołaj
AU - Twali, Michelle Sinayobye
AU - Hadjiandreou, Eliana
AU - McNeill, Andrew
N1 - Funding information: Parts of this research were funded by grants from the American Psychology Foundation Visionary Grant, the Diamentowy Grant by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (095/DIA/2012/41), and the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFI-119433).
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Collective memories of historical ingroup victimization can be linked to prosocial or hostile intergroup outcomes. We hypothesize that such discrepant responses are predicted by different construals of the ingroup’s victimization in relation to other groups (i.e., comparative victim beliefs). Using improved measures of inclusive and exclusive victim beliefs, with a global or regional reference group, multigroup structural equation modeling showed across four different groups (Armenian Americans [N=265], Jewish Americans [N=297], Hungarians [N=301], Poles [N =468]) that inclusive victim beliefs predict prosocial, conciliatory attitudes, while exclusive victim beliefs predict hostile attitudes towards historical perpetrator groups and (in the Polish and Hungarian samples) religious and ethnic outgroups targeted in the present. Moreover, comparative victim beliefs mediated effects of more general psychological orientations (ingroup superiority, universal orientation, perspective‐taking) on intergroup outcomes. These findings suggest the importance of considering distinct collective victim beliefs, and different contexts in research on collective victimhood.
AB - Collective memories of historical ingroup victimization can be linked to prosocial or hostile intergroup outcomes. We hypothesize that such discrepant responses are predicted by different construals of the ingroup’s victimization in relation to other groups (i.e., comparative victim beliefs). Using improved measures of inclusive and exclusive victim beliefs, with a global or regional reference group, multigroup structural equation modeling showed across four different groups (Armenian Americans [N=265], Jewish Americans [N=297], Hungarians [N=301], Poles [N =468]) that inclusive victim beliefs predict prosocial, conciliatory attitudes, while exclusive victim beliefs predict hostile attitudes towards historical perpetrator groups and (in the Polish and Hungarian samples) religious and ethnic outgroups targeted in the present. Moreover, comparative victim beliefs mediated effects of more general psychological orientations (ingroup superiority, universal orientation, perspective‐taking) on intergroup outcomes. These findings suggest the importance of considering distinct collective victim beliefs, and different contexts in research on collective victimhood.
KW - attitudes towards Muslims
KW - attitudes towards refugees
KW - comparative victim beliefs
KW - exclusive victim beliefs
KW - genocide
KW - inclusive victim beliefs
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U2 - 10.1002/ejsp.2756
DO - 10.1002/ejsp.2756
M3 - Article
SN - 0046-2772
VL - 51
SP - 505
EP - 524
JO - European Journal of Social Psychology
JF - European Journal of Social Psychology
IS - 3
ER -
