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Throwing off the dark legacy when going down: Experience of status loss undermi...
Waldzus, S.; Dumont, K.; Knoetze, L.Two experiments tested whether group members’ reparation intentions towards victims of the ingroup’s past wrongdoings depend on their experience of relative status change. We manipulated born-free White South Africans’ experience of accessibility of memories of past ingroup wrongdoings and their current experiences of status loss. For participants believing in the ingroup’s responsibility for past wrongdoing to...
Tears evoke the intention to offer social support: A systematic investigation o...
Zickfeld, J. H.; Van de Ven; N.; Pich, O.; Schubert, T. W.; Berkessel, J. B.; Pizarro, J.; Bhushan, B.; Mateo, N. J.; Barbosa, S.; Sharman, L.Tearful crying is a ubiquitous and likely uniquely human phenomenon. Scholars have argued that emotional tears serve an attachment function: Tears are thought to act as a social glue by evoking social support intentions. Initial experimental studies supported this proposition across several methodologies, but these were conducted almost exclusively on participants from North America and Europe, resulting in lim...
Kama muta: conceptualizing and measuring the experience of being moved across 1...
Zickfeld, J. H.; Schubert, T. W.; Seibt, C.; Blomster, J.; Arriaga, P.; Basabe, N.; Blaut, A.; Caballero, A.; Carrera, P.; Dalgar, I.; Ding, Y.English-speakers sometimes say that they feel moved to tears, emotionally touched, stirred, or that something warmed their heart; other languages use similar passive contact metaphors to refer to an affective state. We propose and measure the concept of kama muta to understand experiences often given these and other labels. Do the same experiences evoke the same kama muta emotion across nations and languages? W...
Reparation demands and collective guilt assignment of black South Africans
Dumont, K.; Waldzus, S.The present research studied reparation demands of born-free Black South African adolescents as members of a former victimized group from a social psychological perspective. Two cross-sectional studies tested whether identification indirectly predicts reparation demands via assignment of collective guilt to White South Africans; and whether this indirect relation is moderated by cross-group friendship. The resu...
Ideal selves as identity management strategies
Dumont, K.; Waldzus, S.This research addresses the relationship between ideal selves and social context from a social identity perspective. Based on Social Identity Theory (Tajfel and Turner, 1979 and Tajfel and Turner, 1986) and related research, it is argued that ideal selves stand in a functional relationship with identity management strategies and that, consequently, shared beliefs about relevant intergroup relations influence th...
Group-based guilt and reparation in the context of social change
Dumont, K.; Waldzus, S.This article examines how the consequences of group-based guilt depend on the perceptions of social change of the former perpetrator group. Informed by the Social Identity Theory and research on intergroup threat and help, the hypothesis was proposed that reparation intentions toward members of a victim group as the consequence of group-based guilt is moderated by the perceptions of changes of the status positi...