%0 Journal Article
%T Identity Centrality and In-Group Superiority Differentially Predict Reactions to Historical Victimization and Harm Doing
%A Rezarta Bilali
%J International Journal of Conflict and Violence
%D 2012
%I University of Bielefeld
%X Two U.S. studies report a differential effect of identity centrality and in-group superiority on reactions to in-group victimization and in-group harm-doing. Study 1 (N = 80) found that higher identity centrality predicted less justification for freely-recalled in-group victim events, whereas higher in-group superiority predicted more justification for freely-recalled in-group harm-doing events. Study 2 (N = 105) reexamined these findings in specific contexts of historical victimization (Pearl Harbor) and harm-doing (Hiroshima and Nagasaki), finding that in-group superiority was a predictor of reactions to historical in-group harm-doing (justification, emotional reactions, importance of events), whereas centrality was a predictor of reactions to historical in-group victimization.
%K inter-group violence
%K victim
%K perpetrator
%K ingroup identification
%K identity centrality
%K ingroup superiority
%U http://ijcv.org/index.php/ijcv/article/view/223/pdf_63