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  • Perpetrator groups can enhance their moral self-image by accepting their own intergroup apologies

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    Barlow, Fiona Kate
    Thai, Michael
    Wohl, Michael JA
    White, Sarah
    Wright, Marie-Ann
    Hornsey, Matthew J
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Barlow, Fiona K.
    Year published
    2015
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    There is an implicit assumption that perpetrators' moral image restoration following an intergroup apology depends on absolution from victims. In this paper we examine whether perpetrators can in fact look to other ingroup members for moral pardon. In Studies 1 and 4, Australians read an apology to Indian people for a series of assaults on Indian nationals in Australia. In Studies 2 and 3, non-Aboriginal Australians were provided with apologies offered on their behalf to Aboriginal Australians. In each study participants were told that other perpetrator group members had either accepted or rejected the apology. In line with ...
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    There is an implicit assumption that perpetrators' moral image restoration following an intergroup apology depends on absolution from victims. In this paper we examine whether perpetrators can in fact look to other ingroup members for moral pardon. In Studies 1 and 4, Australians read an apology to Indian people for a series of assaults on Indian nationals in Australia. In Studies 2 and 3, non-Aboriginal Australians were provided with apologies offered on their behalf to Aboriginal Australians. In each study participants were told that other perpetrator group members had either accepted or rejected the apology. In line with predictions, when perpetrator group members heard that fellow perpetrators accepted an apology made to victims they felt morally restored, and consequently were more willing to reconcile. Effects were largely unqualified by apology quality (Studies 2–4), and held in the face of victim group apology rejection (Studies 3–4). We demonstrate that perpetrator group members can effectively gain moral redemption by accepting their own apologies, even qualified ones that have proved insufficient to victim groups.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
    Volume
    60
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2015.05.001
    Copyright Statement
    © 2015 Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
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    Psychology not elsewhere classified
    Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified
    Psychology
    Cognitive Sciences
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/102505
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