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Close or Distant Past? The Role of Temporal Distance in Responses to Intergroup Violence from Victim and Perpetrator Perspectives

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dc.contributor.advisorBernhard Leidner
dc.contributor.advisorBrian Lickel
dc.contributor.authorLi, Mengyao
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.date2024-03-27T17:58:27.000
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T16:18:51Z
dc.date.available2024-04-26T16:18:51Z
dc.date.submittedMay
dc.date.submitted2017
dc.description.abstractAs time distances people from moral transgressions, do affected parties experience a lingering need for addressing the past, or does the need gradually fade away over time? Do people perceive time differently depending on whether the ingroup has committed or suffered the transgression? In two different intergroup contexts, we investigate the role of temporal distance in attitudes toward justice and reconciliation after moral transgressions from the perspectives of both victim and perpetrator groups. In the context of the conflict between Serbs and Bosniaks, Study 1 showed that temporal distance from intergroup transgressions predicted different reactions to the transgression between victim and perpetrator groups. Whereas increased subjective temporal distance predicted more opposition to justice and reconciliation efforts via reduced empathy for outgroup members among the perpetrator group, it predicted more willingness to forgo justice and reconcile via increased empathy for outgroup members among the victim group. Study 1 also demonstrated another type of temporal asymmetry between victim and perpetrator groups. Compared to Serbs, the primary perpetrator group in the conflict, Bosniaks perceived the war as temporally closer. In the context of the conflict between the U.S. and Iran, Study 2 provided a partial conceptual replication of Study 1, and further explored the moderating role of ingroup glorification. Whereas high glorifiers perceived the transgression as temporally closer when the ingroup is the victim than the perpetrator, low glorifiers reacted in the exact opposite manner, perceiving the transgression as more distant when the ingroup was the perpetrator than when it was the victim. These divergent perceptions of time further yielded victim and perpetrator group members’ different attitudes toward justice and reconciliation. Study 3 further established the causal relationships between temporal distance and attitudes toward justice and reconciliation via empathy, again moderated by glorification. The implications for post-conflict peacebuilding are discussed.
dc.description.degreeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
dc.description.departmentPsychology
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7275/9920096.0
dc.identifier.orcidN/A
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/20187
dc.relation.urlhttps://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1969&context=dissertations_2&unstamped=1
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.subjectintergroup violence
dc.subjecttemporal distance
dc.subjectjustice
dc.subjectreconciliation
dc.subjectingroup glorification
dc.subjectQuantitative Psychology
dc.subjectSocial and Behavioral Sciences
dc.subjectSocial Psychology
dc.titleClose or Distant Past? The Role of Temporal Distance in Responses to Intergroup Violence from Victim and Perpetrator Perspectives
dc.typeopenaccess
dc.typearticle
dc.typedissertation
digcom.contributor.authorisAuthorOfPublication|email:limengyao17@gmail.com|institution:University of Massachusetts Amherst|Li, Mengyao
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