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The role of control motivation in Germans’ and Poles’ interest in history

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16/08/2019
Author
Bilewicz, Michał
Stefaniak, Anna
Barth, Markus
Witkowska, Marta
Fritsche, Immo
Keywords
Interest in history
Group based control restoration
Personal control
Moral agents
BF Psychology
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Abstract
Contemporary societies seem to be obsessed with history. This is reflected in the popularity of historical books, films, and reenactments. In our research, we aimed to assess the specific types of content in which people are interested when exploring their national histories and the psychological factors motivating such explorations. Following the two-dimensional model of social cognition that points to morality and competence as main dimensions in person and group perception, we distinguished interest in competence-related aspects of national history (control) from interest in historical moral actions (moral agency). Two studies performed in Poland and Germany showed that in both countries people’s interest in history is structured in a similar way, in which moral agency and control play essential roles. Additionally, in both countries people reacted to individual control threats with enhanced curiosity about the past moral agency of their nations. We discuss these results within the framework of the model of group-based control and compensatory control processes.
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Bilewicz , M , Stefaniak , A , Barth , M , Witkowska , M & Fritsche , I 2019 , ' The role of control motivation in Germans’ and Poles’ interest in history ' , Social Psychological Bulletin , vol. 14 , no. 2 , e33399 , pp. 1-31 . https://doi.org/10.32872/spb.v14i2.33399
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Social Psychological Bulletin
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.32872/spb.v14i2.33399
ISSN
2569-653X
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2019 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, CC BY 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Preparation of this article was supported by the Polish National Science Center (NCN) and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) BEETHOVEN Grant DEC-2014/15/G/HS6/04589.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/27144

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