Overcoming competitive victimhood and facilitating forgiveness through re-categorization into a common victim or perpetrator identity

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 867-877

  Shnabel, Nurit ^a   Halabi, Samer ^c   Noor, Masi ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ACADEMIC COLLEGE OF TEL AVIV YAFFO   (Israel)

^c CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agency; Common ingroup identity model; Competitive victimhood; Intergroup forgiveness; Israeli Palestinian conflict; Moral image

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878976275     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2013.04.007     Document Type: Article

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