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Social Psychology Program
Collective Guilt Volume
Research Interests
Professor Branscombe's research has been focused on basic issues
of Intergroup Relations--particularly how members of low and
high status groups cope with threats to their social identity.
Among members of low status groups, the greatest threat to
social identity is that of being devalued and discriminated
against by members of higher status groups. We examine how such
perceived discrimination and exclusion encourages identification
with the devalued group, and this in turn partially alleviates
the negative consequences of expecting and actually experiencing
discrimination. Among high status group members, the greatest
threat to social identity is perceiving one's own group as
having a history of discriminating against or otherwise harming
members of a lower status group. We study how reminders of such
illegitimate harm doing is coped with. In particular, we
investigate the nature of collective guilt, when it is most
likely to be experienced, and how collective guilt can produce
reductions in prejudice.
Selected Publications
Branscombe, N.R., Schmitt, M.T., & Schiffhauer, K.
(2007). Racial attitudes in response to thoughts of White
privilege. European Journal of Social Psychology, 37,
203-215.
Jetten, J., Branscombe, N.R., & Spears, R. (2006). Living
on the edge: Dynamics of intragroup and intergroup rejection
experiences. In R. Brown & D. Capozza (Eds.), Social identities:
Motivational, emotional and cultural influences (pp. 91-107).
London: Sage.
Miron, A.M., Branscombe, N.R., & Schmitt, M.T. (2006).
Collective guilt as distress over illegitimate intergroup
inequality. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 9,
163-180.
Wohl, M.J.A., Branscombe, N.R., & Klar, Y. (2006).
Collective guilt: Justice-based emotional reactions when one’s
group has done wrong or been wronged. European Review of Social
Psychology, 17, 1-37.
Branscombe, N.R., & Doosje, B. (Eds). (2004).
Collective guilt: International perspectives. New York:
Cambridge University Press.
Branscombe, N.R. (2004). A social
psychological process perspective on collective guilt. In N.R.
Branscombe & B. Doosje (Eds.),
Collective guilt: International perspectives (pp. 320-334).
New York: Cambridge University Press.
Branscombe, N.R., & Miron, A.M. (2004).
Interpreting the ingroup’s negative actions toward another
group: Emotional reactions to appraised harm. In L.Z. Tiedens &
C.W. Leach (Eds.), The social life of emotions (pp.
314-335). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Branscombe, N.R., Slugoski, B., & Kappen, D.M.
(2004). The measurement of collective guilt: What it is and what
it is not. In N.R. Branscombe & B. Doosje (Eds.), Collective
guilt: International perspectives (pp. 16-34). New York:
Cambridge University Press.
Branscombe,N.R., Schmitt, M.T.,&Harvey, R.D.
(1999). Perceiving pervasivediscrimination among
African-Americans: Implications for group identificationand
well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
77,135-149.
Adams, G., Biernat, M., Branscombe, N.R., Crandall, C.S.,
& Wrightsman, L.S. (in press). Beyond prejudice: Toward a
sociocultural psychology of racism and oppression. In G. Adams,
M. Biernat, N.R. Branscombe, C.S. Crandall, & L.S. Wrightsman
(Eds.), Commemorating Brown: The social psychology of racism
and discrimination. Washington, DC: American Psychological
Association.
Baron, R.A., Branscombe, N.R., & Byrne, D. (in press).
Social psychology (12th ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
Wohl, M.J.A., & Branscombe, N.R. (in press). Remembering
historical victimization: Collective guilt for current ingroup
transgressions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
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