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Vicarious Retribution: The Role of Collective Blame in Intergroup Aggression

Lickel, Brian, Miller, Norman, Stenstrom, Douglas M., Denson, Thomas F., Schmader, Toni·2006·Personality and Social Psychology Review
DOI 10.1207/s15327957pspr1004_6
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We provide a new framework for understanding 1 aspect of aggressive conflict between groups, which we refer to as vicarious retribution. Vicarious retribution occurs when a member of a group commits an act of aggression toward the members of an outgroup for an assault or provocation that had no personal consequences for him or her but which did harm a fellow ingroup member. Furthermore, retribution is often directed at outgroup members who, themselves, were not the direct causal agents in the original attack against the person's ingroup. Thus, retribution is vicarious in that neither the agent of retaliation nor the target of retribution were directly involved in the original event that precipitated the intergroup conflict. We describe how ingroup identification, outgroup entitativity, and other variables, such as group power, influence vicarious retribution. We conclude by considering a variety of conflict reduction strategies in light of this new theoretical framework.

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Authors
Lickel, B., Miller, N., Stenstrom, D. M., Denson, T. F., & Schmader, T.
Affiliations
  • University of Southern California (US)
  • University of Arizona (US)
ORCID
Venue
Personality and Social Psychology Review
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2006-11
Volume
10
Issue
4
Pages
372-390
ISSN
  • 1088-8683 (ISSN-L)
  • 1532-7957
DOI
10.1207/s15327957pspr1004_6
OpenAlex
W1989434673
Cited by
345
References
156
Citations by year
2026: 16 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 37 · 2022: 25 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 36 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 20 · 2017: 24 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 18 · 2013: 14 · 2012: 17
FWCI
3.11
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Personality and Social Psychology Review (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
Keywords
intergroup aggression, intergroup conflict, ingroup identification, group power, retaliation
MeSH terms
Aggression, Cognition, Group Processes, Guilt, Humans, Motivation, Social Behavior, Social Perception

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