Glick and Paluck: The Aftermath of Genocide [af5c49ce]
Tags: papers, conflict and violence
- Social psychologists tend to emphaizie proximal situational causes
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Talks about how victim groups experiece an ambivalent relationship to the past
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Rememberence is often painful
- Holocaust remeberance not only creates solidarity within the group but also strongly motivates the rejection of a continuing victim identity
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Past recession leads to denial and distancing of colonialization, mass violence, and genocide.
- Being told the victim group is currently doing well diminishes collective guilt