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Participating in a Digital-History Project Mobilizes People for Symbolic Justice and Better Intergroup Relations Today
Author(s): Ditlmann, Ruth; Firestone, Berenike; Turkoglu, Oguzhan
Date: 2025
Topics: Holocaust Commemoration, Holocaust Education, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Surveys, Psychology
Abstract: Awareness of past atrocities is widely seen as critical for restoring justice and building resilient democracies. Going beyond information provision, an increasing number of memorial sites, museums, and historical archives offer opportunities for public participation. Yet little empirical evidence exists on the impact of participation in the collective remembrance of past atrocities. Two experimental studies, a field-in-the-lab study with 552 university students in Germany and an online randomized control trial with 900 digital workers in Germany, showed that participating in a large-scale, digital-history project about Nazi persecution increased peoples’ collective-action intentions for further commemoration activities and for activities that strengthen intergroup relations today. These effects persisted for 2 weeks. The findings suggest that digital-history projects can motivate collective action that is critical for symbolic justice and positive intergroup relations, thus contributing to well-functioning, pluralistic democracies.
Ongoing Victim Suffering Increases Prejudice: The Case of Secondary Anti-Semitism
Author(s): Imhoff, Roland; Banse, Rainer
Date: 2009
Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Psychology, Antisemitism: Attitude Surveys
Abstract: Some people have postulated that the perception of Jews' ongoing suffering from past atrocities can result in an increase in anti-Semitism. This postulated secondary anti-Semitism is compatible with a number of psychological theories, but until now there has been no empirical evidence in support of this notion. The present study provides the first evidence that ongoing suffering evokes an increase in prejudice against the victims. However, this effect became apparent only if respondents felt obliged to respond truthfully because of a bogus pipeline (BPL); without this constraint, the perception of ongoing victim suffering led to a socially desirable reduction in self-reported prejudice. The validity of the BPL manipulation was confirmed by the finding that it moderated the relation between explicit and implicit anti-Semitism, as measured with an affect misattribution procedure.