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

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1177/13684302221084859" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1177/13684302221084859</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13684302221084859" target="_blank" >10.1177/13684302221084859</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Victimhood beliefs are linked to willingness to engage in intergroup contact with a former adversary through empathy and trust
Original language description
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.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-01214S" target="_blank" >GA20-01214S: Mutual perception of acculturation preferences in majority and immigrants: An intergroup perspective</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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