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The Difficulty of Making Reparations Affects the Intensity of Collective Guilt
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Abstract We examined how the difficulty of making reparations for the harm done to another group affects the intensity of collective guilt. Men were confronted with information documenting male privilege and were told that they would have a chance to help women and reduce patriarchy by collecting signatures ... view more
We examined how the difficulty of making reparations for the harm done to another group affects the intensity of collective guilt. Men were confronted with information documenting male privilege and were told that they would have a chance to help women and reduce patriarchy by collecting signatures on a petition. We manipulated the difficulty of making reparations by asking participants to collect 5, 50, or 100 signatures. As predicted by Brehm's (1999) theory of emotional intensity, collective guilt was a non-monotonic function of the difficulty of making reparations. Men in the moderate difficulty (50 signatures) condition expressed greater collective guilt than participants in the low (5) or high (100) difficulty conditions. Results are discussed in terms of the implications for the theory of emotional intensity, collective guilt, and collective emotions more generally.... view less
Free Keywords
collective guilt; emotion; emotional intensity; guilt; intergroup emotion;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2008
Page/Pages
p. 267-279
Journal
Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 11 (2008) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430208090642
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)