Krützkamp, Inga (2022) Apologizing on Behalf of Your Group - How Empathy and Group-Based Guilt Relate to the Intention to Apologize. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
81% of women in America experience some form of sexual harassment. To facilitate intergroup reconciliation we ask, what could motivate members of the perpetrator group to apologize to victims? Empathy through perspective taking and group-based guilt, as prosocial emotions, have been linked to facilitate conciliative actions such as apologies in intergroup conflict situations. This study investigates the question, whether empathy with female victims of sexual harassment predicts the intention to apologize in male ingroup members, and if feelings of group-based guilt play a role in this. With this study, we replicated the work by Febriana (2022) in a different intergroup context. In an experimental survey we manipulated male American participants (N = 312) to read four personal stories of victims sharing their experience in either an empathic or objective manner. An insignificant effect of the manipulation was found. Without establishing causality, measured empathy was positively linked to the intention to apologize, partially mediated by group-based guilt. So, in this context, when male ingroup members empathized more with the female victims of sexual harassment, they were more likely to show an intention to apologize and reported higher feelings of group-based guilt. This study replicated the positive relations between empathy, group-based guilt, and intention to apologize, previously found in several interpersonal and intergroup studies; it adds to the body of research on intergroup relations. Keywords: empathy; group-based guilt; intention to apologize; intergroup conflict
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Gordijn, E.H. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Applied Social Psychology (ASP) [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Mar 2022 13:19 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2022 13:19 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/312 |
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