Of saints and sinners: How appeals to collective pride and guilt affect outgroup helping

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 781-796

  van Leeuwen, Esther ^a   van Dijk, Wilco ^b   Kaynak, Ümit ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

collective guilt; collective pride; empathy; intergroup helping

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885708246     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430213485995     Document Type: Article

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