Overcoming competitive victimhood and facilitating forgiveness through re-categorization into a common victim or perpetrator identity ☆

By Nurit Shnabel, S. Halabi, Masi Noor. 2013

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The Social Psychology of Collective Victimhood (2017, background): “For example, drawing both groups’ attention to their common suffering as a result of the regional conflict reduced the tendency to engage in competitive victimhood and increased willingness for forgiveness (Shnabel et al., 2013).”
Included but Invisible? Subtle Bias, Common Identity, and the Darker Side of “We” (2016, background): “For example, Shnabel, Halabi, and Noor (2013) induced Israeli Jews and Palestinians to perceive of themselves as common victims (Study 1) or common perpetrators (Study 2) in their intergroup conflict.”
Social-Psychological Interventions for Intergroup Reconciliation: An Emotion Regulation Perspective (2016, background): “Related to the preceding, Shnabel, Halabi, and Noor (2013) found that creating a common victim identity (reading an article that both Jews and Palestinians are victims of the conflict) reduced competitive victimhood, decreased moral defensiveness, and promoted greater forgiveness—all important and…”
From political opponents to enemies? The role of perceived moral distance in the animalistic dehumanization of the political outgroup (2016, background): “For instance, in a recent study involving Israeli Jewish and Palestinian participants, Shnabel, Halabib, and Noor (2013) have shown that reducing moral defensiveness (i.e., the need to protect the ingroup’s moral image) helps diminish intergroup conflict.”
The Role of Inclusive and Exclusive Victim Consciousness in Predicting Intergroup Attitudes: Findings from Rwanda, Burundi, and DRC (2015, background): “, 2013; Vollhardt, 2012) and ingroup-focused motives to reduce guilt, improve the group’s moral image, or gain access to compensation in the case of exclusive victim consciousness (e.g., Noor et al., 2012; Shnabel et al., 2013; Wohl & Branscombe, 2008).”