How the past weighs on the present: social representations of history and their role in identity politics.

By James H. Liu, Denis J. Hilton. British Journal of Social Psychology, 2005

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Social Psychology

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Narrative as a Root Metaphor for Political Psychology (2012, background): “According to Liu and Hilton (2005), social representations of history serve a crucial role in the development of group identity.”
Colonialism and Psychology of Culture (2008, background): “Liu and Hilton (2005) have viewed socially shared representation of history as playing a critical role in shaping and maintaining people’s identity.”
‘The double identity’ of Taiwanese Chinese: A dilemma of politics and culture rooted in history (2003, background): “The third prediction is a functional hypothesis represented by the arrows from demographic group through identity and history to societal issues in Figure 1. The dotted arrow acknowledges that there may be a feedback loop from current political choices back to representations of history ( Liu & Hilt”
To prosper, organizational psychology should… adopt a global perspective (2008, background): “Research has shown, for instance, that people are most affected by the historical context when it is both relevant and salient (as when faced with an enemy from a recent war; Doosje, Branscombe, Spears, & Manstead, 1998; see also Liu & Hilton, 2005).”
National Narrative and Social Psychological Influences in Turks’ Denial of the Mass Killings of Armenians as Genocide (2013, background): “Historical memories serve to identify one’s current foes and allies, as well as identify and anticipate future threats (Liu & Hilton, 2005).”
Cross-Group Friendships and Intergroup Attitudes (2011, background): “This finding underscores the importance of examining specific contexts and unique intergroup histories when testing the ability of intergroup-theory-based interventions to improve intergroup attitudes (Liu & Hilton, 2005).”
The sociality of personal and collective nostalgia (2019, background): “…this form of nostalgia will be exclusively ingroupbenefitting or both ingroup- and out-group benefitting may depend, to a substantial degree, on which aspects of the historical past (Hilton & Liu, 2008; Liu & Hilton, 2005) are being activated and used as the fodder of the nostalgic experience.”
The presence of the past: Identity continuity and group dynamics (2015, background): “…(e.g., Liu et al., 2005; Liu, Lawrence, Ward, & Abraham, 2002), and how such representations guide current sociopolitical attitudes, such as support for military action (Liu & Hilton, 2005) and justification of social inequality (Sibley, Liu, Duckitt, & Khan, 2008; see also Liu & László, 2007).”
Sociopsychological Foundations of Intractable Conflicts (2007, background): “As a result, when social identity is dominated by meanings that provide ethos of conflict and collective memory, this supports the continuation of the conflict (Liu & Hilton, 2005).”