Effects of group membership on the transmission of negative historical events
- Páez Rovira, Darío
- Valencia Garate, José Francisco
- Vincze, O.
- Marques, J.
ISSN: 1138-0853
Year of publication: 2006
Issue: 32
Pages: 79-105
Type: Article
More publications in: Psicología Política
Abstract
Previous studies show that the source of a historical rumour as well as whether it involves in-group or out-group events are powerful determinant of the way individuals deal with the transmitted information. The present studies, knitting together perspectives on collective emotions such as guilt, rumour findings in transmission variables and the reconstruction of information and social identity defence mechanisms, attempted to analyse how group members deal with an in-group (as compared to an out-group) derogating event. The transmission of historical events in the context of inter-group relations were analysed in three studies.