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

How does war shape human altruism? Some find warfare increases generosity within groups only. Others maintain that war's prosocial effects extend to outgroup members as well. To make sense of these disparate findings, we offer a theoretical framework highlights the role threat sensitivity in altruism. Refugees from Syria and Iraq (N = 1521) completed welfare tradeoff task perceptions scale where other's group identity, gender age were experimentally varied. We found individuals belonging...

The purpose of the present article is to systematically investigate how people perceive collective threat and such perceptions relate political preferences. Existing taxonomies are mostly derived from top-down analyses little attempt has been made examine bottom-up spontaneously threats. One area where this central importance relationship between preferences perception. Prevailing theories in social psychology primarily study security stability threats conclude that conservatives more...

Two studies examined the association of particular sentiments and political identities with Jewish-Israeli students’ responses to a generic plan end Israeli–Palestinian conflict narrower proposals for cooperative undertakings. Three composites—hatred/anger, compassion/empathy (reverse-coded), guilt/shame also global composite combining these three sets sentiments, were generally associated negative those plans attributions about wisdom patriotism supporters plans. Most associations between...

We introduce the distinction between perceiving group as Intra-Generational (IG; including only present generation of members) and Trans-Generational (TG; all past, present, future generations group). In four studies ( N = 1,265) administered to Jewish Israeli, Palestinian American, Swedish samples, we demonstrate that a tendency perceive TG is related willingness endure ingroup suffering this relationship mediated by degree which interest whole given primacy over collection members (Primacy...

In three studies across cultures (U.S., Sweden, and Israel), we examine whether implicit theories about groups are associated with political identity this relationship is mediated by Social Dominance Orientation (SDO). Study 1 found that raising the salience of entity beliefs leads to increased right-wing self-identification on social issues, although no such effect was regarding general or economic identity. 2, more participants endorsed (vs. incremental groups), they identified as...

A survey experiment, carried out in a field setting among Sunni Arab Syrian refugees ( N = 2,479), examined the effect of exposure to wartime trauma, ethnoreligious group affiliation, and degree hostility intergroup relations on altruism positive emotional regard. The results showed that in-group targets were met with more regard than relatively neutral out-group targets, which turn individuals from hostile out-group. These tendencies elevated participants high trauma. Emotions mediated...

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

The purpose of the present research was to examine effect psychological distance and abstraction on judgment ingroup moral transgressions. Based Construal Level Theory (Trope & Liberman, 2010), we hypothesized that high level construal increases degree which value preference determines (value-judgment correspondence) in response This hypothesis supported two studies. In study 1, carried out among Jewish-Israeli university students (N = 100), tendency for abstract associated with higher...

The present research examines the hypothesis that political leftists and rightists mentally construe collective threats differently, such each side views are meaningful to them as close concrete, whereas other underemphasized perceived distant abstract. In two studies (total N = 796) we show Israeli-Jewish perceive against democracy tolerance psychologically closer more concrete than security, opposite tendency. We use a mixed methods approach demonstrate these tendencies in participants’...

The purpose of the present article is to systematically investigate how people perceive collective threat and such perceptions relate political preferences. Existing taxonomies have been theoretically contrived no attempt has made thus far examine spontaneously threats. One area where this central importance relationship between preferences threat. Dominant theories in social psychology studied security stability threats concluded that conservatives are more sensitive motivated manage than...

The purpose of the present article is to systematically investigate how people perceive collective threat and such perceptions relate political preferences. Existing taxonomies have been theoretically contrived no attempt has made thus far examine spontaneously threats. One area where this central importance relationship between preferences threat. Dominant theories in social psychology studied security stability threats concluded that conservatives are more sensitive motivated manage than...