Displacing blame over the ingroup's harming of a disadvantaged group can fuel moral outrage at a third-party scapegoat

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 898-906

  Rothschild, Zachary K ^a   Landau, Mark J ^a   Molina, Ludwin E ^a   Branscombe, Nyla R ^a   Sullivan, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective guilt; Immigrants; Moral outrage; Reparative action; Retributive action; Scapegoating

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878984262     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2013.05.005     Document Type: Article

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