Recognition of shared past sufferings, trust and improving intergroup attitudes in Belgium ; Reconocimiento de sufrimientos pasados, confianza y mejora de actitudes intergrupales en Bélgica

This article examines the role of intergroup trust and recognition of past sufferings onintergroup attitudes. We conducted an experiment among Dutch-speaking students in which we manipulated the degree of importance that French-speakers gave to historical episodes of past victimizations in order to test its impact on the attitudes towards the French-speakers. Results show that intergroup attitudes were most favorable among the high-trusting Dutch-speaking participants when they were led to believe that the French- speakers judged important the events where both communities were considered as v... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Alarcón-Henríquez, Alejandra
Licata, Laurent
Leys, Christophe
Van der Linden, Nicolas
Klein, Olivier
Mercy, Aurélie
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
Verlag/Hrsg.: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Schlagwörter: Collective memory / victimization / recognition / intergroup reconciliation / inter- group conflict / memoria colectiva / victimización / reconocimiento / reconciliación intergrupal / conflicto intergrupal
Sprache: Spanish
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Link(s) : http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/psicologia/article/view/431

This article examines the role of intergroup trust and recognition of past sufferings onintergroup attitudes. We conducted an experiment among Dutch-speaking students in which we manipulated the degree of importance that French-speakers gave to historical episodes of past victimizations in order to test its impact on the attitudes towards the French-speakers. Results show that intergroup attitudes were most favorable among the high-trusting Dutch-speaking participants when they were led to believe that the French- speakers judged important the events where both communities were considered as victims, compared to the conditions where only French-speaking or only Dutch-speaking sufferings were considered important. This suggests some level of intergroup trust is a condition forthe positive effect of shared memories of victimization on attitudes. ; Este artículo examina el rol de la confianza intergrupal y el reconocimiento del sufrimiento pasado en las relaciones intergrupales. Un experimento con estudiantes belgas flamencos manipuló la importancia que belgas francófonos otorgaban a episodios del pasado de victimización para contrastar su impacto en las actitudes hacia los francófonos. Los resultado smostraron que las actitudes intergrupales eran más favorables en los belgas flamencos con alta confianza intergrupal cuando se les presentaba información que los francófonos juzgaban como importantes los sufrimientos de ambos comunidades, en comparación cuando la información solo enfatizaba el sufrimiento de los flamencos o de los francófonos. Estosugiere que un nivel de confianza intergrupo es necesario para que memorias compartidas de sufrimiento mejoren las actitudes.