改善战争的阴影:与战争有关的记忆和超人化对跨群体和解的作用
Islam Borinca1,2, Sofia Stathi3, Theofilos Gkinopoulos4
1University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
Personality & social psychology bulletin
|May 21, 2025
概括
创伤的记忆阻碍了冲突后社会的和平,增加了非人道化. 促进超人类化可以促进和解,但它的有效性取决于记忆的严重程度,并减少竞争性受害.
科学领域:
- 社会心理学 社会心理学
- 冲突解决研究 冲突解决研究
- 创伤心理学 创伤心理学
背景情况:
- 冲突后环境的特点是创伤性记忆,阻碍了和解.
- 非人化,特别是超级非人化和外群非人化,阻碍了和平进程.
- 了解记忆,非人化和和解之间的相互作用对于有效的和平建设至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查创伤性的战争记忆如何影响非人道化,并阻碍战后科索沃的和解.
- 检查元非人化和外群非人化在记忆与和平之间的关系中的调解作用.
- 实验测试操纵超人化对接触开放性和和平的影响.
主要方法:
- 在战后的科索沃进行了三项研究,共有602名参与者.
- 研究1使用相关性分析来检查记忆,非人化和和平之间的关系.
- 研究2和3采用实验设计来操纵超人化,并评估其对和解结果的影响.
主要成果:
- 令人不安的战争记忆负面地预测了通过增加的超级和外组非人类化来接触和和平的开放性.
- 超人类化与令人不安的战争记忆相互作用,影响了对接触和和平的开放性,通过外部群体的非人类化进行调解.
- 超人类化减少了竞争性受害,特别是在具有较低水平令人不安的战争记忆的人群中.
结论:
- 创伤记忆通过促进非人道化,显著阻碍了和解.
- 促进超人类化的干预措施显示出和解的希望,但它们的有效性因创伤性记忆的严重程度而受到缓解.
- 外群非人化是冲突后人口中超人化和和解结果之间的关系的关键调解者.
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