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Dennis T. Kahn

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Making sense of the past to understand the present: Attributions for historical trauma predict contemporary social and political attitudes

2021

Research indicates that the memory of collective trauma influences attitudes towards contemporary social and political issues. We suggest that the specific attributions for trauma that members of victim and perpetrator groups make provide a more nuanced understanding of this relationship. Thus, we constructed and validated a measure of attributions for the Holocaust. Then, we ran a preregistered study on representative samples in Germany ( N = 504) and Israel ( N = 469) to examine whether attributing the Holocaust to essentialist or contextual causes influences attitudes towards the immigration crisis and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Results indicated that, among Germans, attributing …

Cultural StudiesSociology and Political ScienceSocial PsychologyHistorical traumaCommunicationmedia_common.quotation_subjectImmigrationGroup conflictCollective responsibilityPoliticsArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Collective traumaPsychologyAttributionSocial psychologymedia_commonGroup Processes & Intergroup Relations
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Explaining the Inexplicable: Differences in Attributions for the Holocaust in Germany, Israel, and Poland

2016

Seventy years have passed since the Holocaust, but this cataclysmic event continues to reverberate in the present. In this research, we examine attributions about the causes of the Holocaust and the influence of such attributions on intergroup relations. Three representative surveys were conducted among Germans, Poles, and Israeli Jews to examine inter- and intragroup variations in attributions for the Holocaust and how these attributions influence intergroup attitudes. Results indicated that Germans made more external than internal attributions and were especially low in attributing an evil essence to their ancestors. Israelis and Poles mainly endorsed the obedient essence attribution and …

Sociology and Political ScienceSocial PsychologySituationismmedia_common.quotation_subject05 social sciencesIsraeli jews050109 social psychologyExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyCoercion050105 experimental psychologyObediencePhilosophyClinical PsychologyThe HolocaustPolitical Science and International Relations0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesLay perceptionsClosure (psychology)PsychologyAttributionSocial psychologymedia_commonPolitical Psychology
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sj-pdf-1-gpi-10.1177_1368430221990105 ��� Supplemental material for Making sense of the past to understand the present: Attributions for historical t…

2021

Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-gpi-10.1177_1368430221990105 for Making sense of the past to understand the present: Attributions for historical trauma predict contemporary social and political attitudes by Gilad Hirschberger, Roland Imhoff, Dennis T. Kahn and Katja Hanke in Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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