Jin Wen Jie, Park Sang Hee, Park Joonha
Department of Psychology, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea.
Graduate School of Management, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, Nagoya, Japan.
Front Psychol. 2022 Apr 25;13:809513. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.809513. eCollection 2022.
Based on real-life intergroup animosities originating from a historical conflict, the current study examined how the perceived stance of the outgroup about the conflict affects the dehumanization of the outgroup. In Study 1 ( = 120), Korean undergraduates attributed more to the Japanese after reading an article that the Japanese government did (vs. refused to) issue an official apology for a historical wrong. In turn, the more human nature assigned to the Japanese predicted higher expectations about positive mutual relations in the future. Similarly, in Study 2 ( = 209), Japanese undergraduates attributed more to Koreans after reading an article that an official apology for a historical wrong from Japan was accepted (vs. rejected) by Koreans. The higher the perceived human uniqueness of Koreans was, the higher were the willingness to help and the expectations of a positive relationship in the future. The findings demonstrate how mutual dehumanization can be reduced as a result of the other side's reconciliatory stances and can further contribute to improving intergroup relations.
基于源于历史冲突的现实生活中的群体间敌意，本研究考察了外群体对冲突的感知立场如何影响对外群体的非人化。在研究1（N = 120）中，韩国大学生在阅读一篇关于日本政府对历史错误进行了（与拒绝）正式道歉的文章后，赋予日本人更多的人性。反过来，赋予日本人越多的人性，对未来积极相互关系的期望就越高。同样，在研究2（N = 209）中，日本大学生在阅读一篇关于韩国接受（与拒绝）日本对历史错误的正式道歉的文章后，赋予韩国人更多的人性。对韩国人感知到的人类独特性越高，帮助的意愿和对未来积极关系的期望就越高。研究结果表明，另一方的和解立场如何能够减少相互的非人化，并进一步有助于改善群体间关系。
