Szabó Zsolt P, Mészáros Noémi Z, Csertő István
Department of Social Psychology, Eötvös Loránd UniversityBudapest, Hungary.
Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, University of PécsPécs, Hungary.
Front Psychol. 2017 May 31;8:912. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00912. eCollection 2017.
Three studies examined how members of a national group react to in-group wrongdoings. We expected that perceived in-group moral superiority would lead to unwillingness to repair the aggression. We also expected that internal-focused emotions such as group-based guilt and group-based shame would predict specific, misdeed-related reparative intentions but not general approach motivation toward the victim groups. In Study 1, facing the in-group's recent aggression, participants who believed that the Hungarians have been more moral throughout their history than members of other nations, used more exonerating cognitions, experienced less in-group critical emotions and showed less willingness to provide reparations for the members of the victim group. Study 2 and Study 3 confirmed most findings of Study 1. Perceived in-group moral superiority directly or indirectly reduced willingness to provide either general or specific reparations, while internally focused in-group critical emotions predicted specific misdeed-related reparative intentions but not general approach motivation. The role of emotional attachment to the in-group is considered.
三项研究考察了一个国家群体的成员如何应对群体内的不当行为。我们预计，感知到的群体内道德优越感会导致不愿意修复侵害行为。我们还预计，诸如基于群体的内疚和基于群体的羞耻等内聚焦情绪会预测与特定不当行为相关的修复意图，但不会预测对受害群体的一般接近动机。在研究1中，面对群体内近期的侵害行为，那些认为匈牙利人在其历史上比其他国家的成员更有道德的参与者，使用了更多的免责认知，体验到的群体内批判性情绪更少，并且表现出为受害群体成员提供赔偿的意愿更低。研究2和研究3证实了研究1的大多数发现。感知到的群体内道德优越感直接或间接地降低了提供一般或特定赔偿的意愿，而内聚焦的群体内批判性情绪预测了与特定不当行为相关的修复意图，但没有预测一般接近动机。研究还考虑了对群体的情感依恋的作用。
