Penić Sandra, Dukes Daniel, Elcheroth Guy, Jayakody Sumedha, Sander David
Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Affect Sci. 2021 Dec 2;2(4):402-413. doi: 10.1007/s42761-021-00086-2. eCollection 2021 Dec.
In countries emerging from civil war, inclusive empathy is important for conflict resolution yet may be difficult to promote. Widening the predominant focus on personal inclusive empathy for conflict resolution, we examine whether support for transitional justice mechanisms (TJ) can be predicted by how much an individual perceives inclusive empathy as being shared in their local communities. Our results, based on a probability sample survey in post-war Sri Lanka ( = 580), reveal that the effects of this perceived communal inclusive empathy can be distinguished from those of personally experienced inclusive empathy, and that the more respondents perceive inclusive empathy as prevalent in their communities, the more they support TJ mechanisms. However, the results also indicate the contextual limits of perceived communal inclusive empathy as a resource for conflict resolution: participants tend to underestimate the prevalence of inclusive empathy, especially in militarized minority communities, and the more they underestimate it, the less they support TJ mechanisms. This study corroborates the importance of social influence in conflict resolution, suggesting that perception of inclusive empathy as shared in one's community is a key determinant of popular support for conflict-transforming policies.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42761-021-00086-2.
在刚摆脱内战的国家，包容性同理心对于冲突解决很重要，但可能难以推广。我们拓宽了冲突解决中对个人包容性同理心的主要关注范围，研究个人认为在当地社区中共享的包容性同理心的程度是否能预测对过渡司法机制（TJ）的支持。我们基于战后斯里兰卡的概率抽样调查（n = 580）得出的结果显示，这种感知到的社区包容性同理心的影响可以与个人经历的包容性同理心的影响区分开来，而且受访者越认为包容性同理心在他们的社区中普遍存在，则他们对过渡司法机制的支持就越多。然而，结果也表明了将感知到的社区包容性同理心作为冲突解决资源的背景限制：参与者往往低估包容性同理心的普遍程度，尤其是在军事化的少数群体社区，而且他们低估得越多，对过渡司法机制的支持就越少。这项研究证实了社会影响在冲突解决中的重要性，表明在一个人的社区中对共享的包容性同理心的感知是民众对冲突转化政策支持的关键决定因素。
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