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      Group identification and historical memory.

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      Personality & social psychology bulletin

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          Differences in ingroup identification can influence the accessibility of historical memories. In Study 1, the authors examined individual differences in identity; in Study 2 they experimentally manipulated identity. In Study 1, high identifiers recalled fewer incidents of ingroup violence and hatred than did low identifiers. High and low identifiers did not differ in their recall of ingroup suffering. In Study 2, participants in the high-identity condition recalled fewer incidents of violence and hatred by members of their group than did those in the low-identity condition but a similar number of good deeds. Control participants recalled more positive than negative group actions; this bias was exaggerated in the high-identity condition and eliminated in the low-identity condition. The authors interpret the results as indicating the effects of social identity on individual-level memory processes, especially schema-consistent recall. They evaluate other explanations of the bias, including collective censorship of negative histories.

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          Journal
          Pers Soc Psychol Bull
          Personality & social psychology bulletin
          0146-1672
          0146-1672
          Mar 2007
          : 33
          : 3
          Affiliations
          [1 ] University of Waterloo, USA.
          Article
          33/3/384
          10.1177/0146167206296103
          17312319
          981207b9-a63d-488a-8ce5-c1a771b8f393
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