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dc.contributor.authorBarlow, Fiona Kate
dc.contributor.authorThai, Michael
dc.contributor.authorWohl, Michael JA
dc.contributor.authorWhite, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorWright, Marie-Ann
dc.contributor.authorHornsey, Matthew J
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-31T12:30:48Z
dc.date.available2017-08-31T12:30:48Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn0022-1031
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jesp.2015.05.001
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/102505
dc.description.abstractThere 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.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAcademic Press
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom39
dc.relation.ispartofpageto50
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Experimental Social Psychology
dc.relation.ispartofvolume60
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCognitive and computational psychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCognition
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode5204
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode520401
dc.titlePerpetrator groups can enhance their moral self-image by accepting their own intergroup apologies
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscript (AM)
gro.facultyGriffith Health, School of Applied Psychology
gro.rights.copyright© 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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gro.griffith.authorBarlow, Fiona K.


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