Motivated to "Forget": The Effects of In-Group Wrongdoing on Memory and Collective Guilt

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 730-737

  Rotella, Katie N ^a   Richeson, Jennifer A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

collective guilt; memory; social identity threat

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885655783     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550613482986     Document Type: Article

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