Pro-diversity intervention improves Poles’ intergoup attitudes by increasing collective nostalgia for more open Polish society
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01/12/2021Metadata
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Abstract
The content of group-based emotions like collective nostalgia (i.e., a sentimental longing for how one’s social group used to be) matters. Yet this has been distressingly overlooked despite the predictive utility that the content of a specific group-based emotion may yield. For instance, there is growing evidence that collective nostalgia for a society that is more homogenous heightens prejudice, while collective nostalgia for a society that is more open and tolerant society increases acceptance of outgroups. In an intervention-based longitudinal study with Polish adolescents (N = 476), we tested whether the content of collective nostalgia can be influenced by highlighting particular aspects of Polish history. The intervention highlighted a history of co-existence between ingroup and outgroup members. We predicted and found that the intervention increased openness-focused nostalgia, which in turn improved intergroup attitudes. Results suggest that community-based interventions can improve intergroup attitudes by eliciting nostalgia for a more open past.
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Stefaniak , A , Wohl , M J A & Bilewicz , M 2021 , ' Pro-diversity intervention improves Poles’ intergoup attitudes by increasing collective nostalgia for more open Polish society ' , Affective Science , vol. 2 , no. 4 , pp. 397-401 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-021-00031-3
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Affective Science
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Peer reviewed
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2662-205XType
Journal article
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Copyright © The Society for Affective Science 2021. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the author created accepted manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-021-00031-3
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Funding: This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant (#435-2019-0692) to Wohl and NCN Sonata bis grant (2017/26/E/HS6/00129).Collections
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