The Impact of Intergroup Emotions on Forgiveness in Northern Ireland

By T. Tam, Miles Hewstone, E. Cairns, Nicole Tausch, G. Maio, Jared B. Kenworthy. 2007

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Reducing Competitive Victimhood in Kosovo: The Role of Extended Contact and Common Ingroup Identity (2012, background): “These effects were driven by increased intergroup trust (Hewstone et al., 2006), intergroup empathy and perception of the outgroup’s humanity, and by reduced anger toward the outgroup (Tam et al., 2007).”
Emotional Barriers to Peace: Emotions and Public Opinion of Jewish Israelis About the Peace Process in the Middle East (2011, background): “Reconciliation: A single-item factor, support for normalization or reconciliation, concentrated on Israeli–Palestinian relations in a post-formal peace era (see Tam et al, 2007 ): “Which of the following situations do you support as the post-conflict phase?” (a) total separation between societies, ”
Infra-humanization: The wall of group differences (2007, background): “Moreover, knowledge is not sufficient to reduce infra-humanization; it has to be accompanied by similarity and friendship (Tam et al., 2007).”
Group Emotions: Cutting the Gordian Knots Concerning Terms, Levels of Analysis, and Processes (2015, unknown): “…and Mackie (2009) X Seger, Smith, Kinias, et al. (2009) X Shepherd et al. (2013a) X Shepherd, et al. (2013b) X Smith et al. (2007) X Tagar et al. (2011) X Tam et al. (2007) X Tapias et al. (2007) X Tarrant et al. (2009) X Tausch et al. (2011) X Tropp (2003) X Van der Schalk et al. (2011) X…”
How Does Intergroup Contact Affect Social Change? Its Impact on Collective Action and Individual Mobility Intentions among Members of a Disadvantaged Group (2015, background): “Specifically, while intergroup contact was shown to result greater awareness of commonalities and shared humanity (e.g., Tam et al., 2007), reduced importance of group identities and emphasis on personal characteristics (Brewer & Miller, 1984), identification with a common, superordinate identity…”
Social-Psychological Interventions for Intergroup Reconciliation: An Emotion Regulation Perspective (2016, background): “ative intergroup emotions such as anger (Tam et al., 2007).”
Anger, Hatred, and the Quest for Peace: Anger Can Be Constructive in the Absence of Hatred (2011, background): “…Skitka et al. 2006) and that these emotions as well as others such as hope, hatred, and empathy influence people’s positions about negotiation, peace agreements, and reconciliation (Halperin forthcoming; Halperin, Canetti-Nisim, and Hirsch-Hoefler 2009; Maoz and McCauley 2005; Tam et al. 2007).”
Increasing outgroup trust, reducing infrahumanization, and enhancing future contact intentions via imagined intergroup contact. (2012, background): “Research has shown that intergroup contact can restrain infrahumanization (Brown, Eller, Leeds, & Stace, 2007; Tam et al., 2007), and intergroup emotions, especially empathy and anxiety, may intervene in this process (Capozza, Trifiletti, Vezzali, & Favara, submitted for publication).”
Emotions and Emotion Regulation in Intractable Conflict: Studying Emotional Processes Within a Unique Context (2015, unknown): “…& Gross, 2011; Huddy et al., 2005; Lerner et al., 2003; Mackie et al., 2000; Mashuri et al., 2013; Pliskin et al., 2014; Reifen-Tagar et al., 2011; Sabucedo et al., 2011; Spanovic et al., 2010; Stephan & Finlay, 1999; Sternberg, 2003; Tam et al., 2007, 2008; Volkan, 1997; Wohl et al., 2006, 2010).”
Intergroup contact and intergroup conflict. (2014, unknown): “…personally been affected by intergroup violence (e.g., those deeply affected by years of ethnopolitical violence in Northern Ireland; Hewstone et al., 2006; Tam et al., 2007), and that forgiveness is related to health outcomes (e.g., mild psychiatric morbidity; Myers, Hewstone, Cairns, & 2009).”
Attributing Human Uniqueness and Human Nature to Cultural Groups: Distinct Forms of Subtle Dehumanization (2009, background): “It is a motivated process (Demoulin et al., 2005) that has important consequences, such as reducing forgiveness between groups in confl ict (Tam et al., 2007), reducing intergroup helping (Cuddy, Rock, & Norton, 2007), and absolving ingroups of responsibility for harsh treatment of outgroups…”
We are sorry: Intergroup apologies and their tenuous link with intergroup forgiveness (2013, background): “…are disproportionately denied the perceived capacity to experience secondary emotions, and the more they are denied this capacity the less likely they are to be forgiven following an intergroup transgression (see also Tam et al., 2007, for a similar finding in the Northern Ireland context).”
Emotion in inter-group relations (2008, background): “Furthermore, emotions are thought to be important to inter-group competition and conflict (e.g., Dumont, Yzerbyt, Wigboldus, & Gordijn, 2003; Mackie, Devos, & E. R. Smith, 2000), as well as inter-group reconciliation (e.g., Tam et al., 2007; Wohl & Branscombe, 2005).”