"Remembering" World War II and willingness to fight: Sociocultural factors in the social representation of historical warfare across 22 societies

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 373-380

  Paez, Dario ^a   Liu, James H ^b   Techio, Elza ^a   Slawuta, Patricia ^c   Zlobina, Anya ^d   Cabecinhas, Rosa ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Collective memory; Social representations; War attitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 44949257955     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022108316638     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Archer, D., & Gartner, R. (1984). Violence and crime in cross-national perspective. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
2. Basabe, N., & Valencia, J. (2007). Social structure, culture of peace and emotional climate. Journal of Social Issues, 63, 405-419.
3. Candau, J. (2005). Anthropologie de la mémoire [Anthropology of memory]. Paris: Armand Colin.
4. Collins, R. (2004). Rituals of solidarity and security in the wake of terrorist attack. Sociological Theory, 22, 53-87.
5. Diener, E., Diener, M., & Diener, C. (1995). Factors predicting the subjective well-being of nations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 851-864.
6. Hofstede, G. (2001). Culture's consequences (2 nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
7. Inglehart, R., Basañez, M., Diez-Medrano, N., Halman, R., & Lüijkx, R. (2004). Human beliefs and values: A cross-cultural sourcebook based on the 1999-2002 values surveys. Mexico, DF: Siglo XXI.
8. Laszlo, J. (2003). History, identity and narratives. In J. Laszlo & W. Wagner (Eds.), Theories and controversies in societal psychology (pp. 180-192). Budapest: New Mandate Publishers.
9. Liu, J.H., Goldstein-Hawes, R., Hilton, D.J., Huang, L.L., Gastardo-Conaco, C., Dresler-Hawke, E., et al. (2005). Social representations of events and people in world history across twelve cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 36, 171-191.
10. Liu, J.H., & Hilton, D.J. (2005). How the past weighs on the present: Social representations of history and their impact on identity politics. British Journal of Social Psychology, 44, 537-556.
11. Pennebaker, J., Paez, D., & Rimé, B. (1997). Collective memory of political events. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
12. Pennebaker, J.W., Rentfrow, J., Davis, M., Paez, D., Techio, E., Slawuta, P., et al. (2006). The social psychology of history: Defining the most important events of world history. Psicología Política, 32, 15-32.
13. Rosoux, V. (2001). National identity in France and Germany: From mutual exclusion to negotiation. International Negotiation, 6, 175-198.
14. Van der Vliert, E. (1998). Gender role gaps, competitiveness and temperature. In G. Hofstede (Ed.), Masculinity and femininity (pp. 117-129). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
15. Wertsch, J. (2002). Voices of collective remembering. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.