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Fostering trust and forgiveness through the acknowledgment of others’ past victimization

Author(s) / Creator(s)

Andrighetto, Luca
Halabi, Samer
Nadler, Arie

Abstract / Description

The present work examines the acknowledgment of past ingroup victimization by adversary outgroup leaders as an effective means to promote intergroup trust. More specifically, through an experimental study we demonstrated that Israeli-Jewish participants who were exposed to Palestinian leaders’ messages acknowledging the Jews’ suffering from anti-Semitic persecutions (past victimization condition) displayed more trust toward outgroup leaders than participants who were exposed to messages acknowledging the Jews’ sufferings from the ongoing conflict (present victimization condition) and participants who were exposed to a control message condition. Further, trust mediated the relationship between acknowledgment of past victimization by rivals and forgiveness toward the outgroup as a whole. The implications of these results for restoring fractured intergroup relations are discussed.

Keyword(s)

collective memories acknowledgment of past victimization anti-Semitic persecutions trust forgiveness

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Date of first publication

2018-02-01

Journal title

Journal of Social and Political Psychology

Volume

5

Issue

2

Page numbers

651–664

Publisher

PsychOpen GOLD

Publication status

publishedVersion

Review status

peerReviewed

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Citation

Andrighetto, L., Halabi, S., & Nadler, A. (2018). Fostering trust and forgiveness through the acknowledgment of others’ past victimization. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 5(2), 651–664. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v5i2.728
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Andrighetto, Luca
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Halabi, Samer
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Nadler, Arie
  • PsychArchives acquisition timestamp
    2018-11-26T12:45:30Z
  • Made available on
    2018-11-26T12:45:30Z
  • Date of first publication
    2018-02-01
  • Abstract / Description
    The present work examines the acknowledgment of past ingroup victimization by adversary outgroup leaders as an effective means to promote intergroup trust. More specifically, through an experimental study we demonstrated that Israeli-Jewish participants who were exposed to Palestinian leaders’ messages acknowledging the Jews’ suffering from anti-Semitic persecutions (past victimization condition) displayed more trust toward outgroup leaders than participants who were exposed to messages acknowledging the Jews’ sufferings from the ongoing conflict (present victimization condition) and participants who were exposed to a control message condition. Further, trust mediated the relationship between acknowledgment of past victimization by rivals and forgiveness toward the outgroup as a whole. The implications of these results for restoring fractured intergroup relations are discussed.
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  • Publication status
    publishedVersion
  • Review status
    peerReviewed
  • Citation
    Andrighetto, L., Halabi, S., & Nadler, A. (2018). Fostering trust and forgiveness through the acknowledgment of others’ past victimization. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 5(2), 651–664. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v5i2.728
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  • ISSN
    2195-3325
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/1447
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1799
  • Language of content
    eng
  • Publisher
    PsychOpen GOLD
  • Is version of
    https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v5i2.728
  • Keyword(s)
    collective memories
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  • Keyword(s)
    acknowledgment of past victimization
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  • Keyword(s)
    anti-Semitic persecutions
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  • Keyword(s)
    trust
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  • Keyword(s)
    forgiveness
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  • Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)
    150
  • Title
    Fostering trust and forgiveness through the acknowledgment of others’ past victimization
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  • DRO type
    article
  • Issue
    2
  • Journal title
    Journal of Social and Political Psychology
  • Page numbers
    651–664
  • Volume
    5
  • Visible tag(s)
    Version of Record