When the Past is Far from Dead: How Ongoing Consequences of Genocides Committed by the Ingroup Impact Collective Guilt

Journal of Social Issues

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 74-91

  Imhoff, Roland ^a   Wohl, Michael J A ^b   Erb, Hans Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HELMUT SCHMIDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRIME; GENOCIDE; PREDICTION;

EID: 84866535775     PISSN: 00224537     EISSN: 15404560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/josi.12004     Document Type: Article

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