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When do people derogate or psychologically distance from victims? Belief in a just world and ingroup identification.

Correia, Isabel, Alves, Helder, Sutton, Robbie M., Ramos, Miguel, Gouveia-Pereira, Maria, Vala, Jorge (2012) When do people derogate or psychologically distance from victims? Belief in a just world and ingroup identification. Personality and Individual Differences, 53 (6). pp. 747-752. ISSN 0191-8869. (doi:10.1016/j.paid.2012.05.032) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:31281)

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Abstract

Two factors increase the threat for individuals’ belief in a just world (BJW) posed by an innocent victim: the degree of the observer’s explicit endorsement of BJW and the fact that the victim shares a common identity with the observer. In this paper, we aim to investigate whether or not these two factors (BJW and ingroup identi?cation) have an interaction effect on each of two mechanisms that reduce the threat to BJW: victim derogation and psychological distancing from the victims. In two studies with university students we predicted and found that BJW interacted with identi?cation with an ingroup victim to predict

victim derogation (Study 1) and disidenti?cation from the group shared with the victim (Study 2). In Study 1, the positive relationship between BJW and derogation was signi?cant for strongly identi?ed participants but not for weakly identi?ed participants. In Study 2, high BJW was associated with low ingroup identi?cation only when group salience was activated.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.05.032
Uncontrolled keywords: Belief in a just world Victim derogation Social identi?cation Social identity
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology
Funders: [UNSPECIFIED] Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Depositing User: Robbie Sutton
Date Deposited: 05 Oct 2012 10:11 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:09 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/31281 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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