Collective guilt as distress over illegitimate intergroup inequality

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 163-180

  Miron, Anca M ^a   Branscombe, Nyla R ^a   Schmitt, Michael T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collective guilt; Distress; Empathy; Legitimacy of inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645509554     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430206062075     Document Type: Article

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