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MBmjbsp.bsky.social

How do Euros today reconstruct their ingroup's roles during Nazi occupation? In 6/9 samples, representations as willing collaborators was related to historically defensive responses (by @rolandimhoff.bsky.social#socpsych#poliskyonlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Paper title: Beyond victimhood and perpetration: Reconstruction of the ingroup's historical role in eight Eastern and Western European countries under Nazi occupation

Abstract: The Nazi regime's aggressive expansion across Europe during WWII created a landscape of suffering, resistance, and collaboration. How do lay Europeans today reconstruct their ingroup's roles during Nazi occupation, and how do different role representations relate to defensive responses aimed at protecting the ingroup from threat? We tested two theoretical predictions: Following the identity threat prediction, we expected that denying culpability but endorsing morally favorable group representations (e.g., victim-heroism) would represent an ingroup-defensive strategy, correlating with other defensive responses, such as victim-directed negativity or victim-blaming. Following the identity management prediction, we expected that precisely accepting culpability and acknowledging threatening representations...
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Agree. Reminds me of this excellent paper from Paul Rozin. He's talking about social psychology, but the same idea applies generally too. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1207/...

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fldsofgld.bsky.social

We are missing out on an opportunity to really document the trajectory of his decline. Where is a PhD candidate in social psychology who needs a thesis project?

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SGseguimon1.bsky.social

Moscovici’s minority influence ! Does-it explain the influence of the open Science movement to instill changes in research practices in experimental social psychology ?

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Smehr.nz

"Babe wake up, the social psychologists are at it again"

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JTjohnjost.bsky.social

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KEk000.bsky.social

In fairness, that is the most fun part of Social Psychology. At least for me, which is why my PhD is currently in a dumpster on fire, and I (professionally, at least) am climbing the slope of enlightenment to just doing research anyway, and refusing to publish because it's such a pain in the ass.

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MSmarcscully.bsky.social

The replicability crisis really ought to have prompted social psychology, once and for all, to resile from the experimental method as default. Instead, experimental social psychologists seem to have weaponised it to find new worlds to conquer.

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