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Vicarious Retribution: The Role of Collective Blame in Intergroup Aggression
Abstract
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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“The results are consistent with previous findings (Ross and Ward, 1995; Lickel et al., 2006) and suggest that our manipulations motivated participants of the Revenge (vs. Control) group to view the involved ingroup member more frequently as a victim during intergroup conflict.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lickel, B., Miller, N., Stenstrom, D. M., Denson, T. F., & Schmader, T.
- Affiliations
- University of Southern California (US)
- University of Arizona (US)
- 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
- OpenAlex
- W1989434673
- Cited by
- 345
- References
- 156
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- FWCI
- 3.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- 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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