TY - JOUR
T1 - The framing of atrocities
T2 - Documenting and exploring wide variation in aversion to Germans and German-related activities among holocaust survivors
AU - Cherfas, Lina
AU - Rozin, Paul
AU - Cohen, Adam B.
AU - Davidson, Amelie
AU - McCauley, Clark
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Interviews with 29 Holocaust survivors indicate wide variation in degree of aversion to Germans and activities associated with Germany. For some survivors, aversion is limited to those closest to the Nazi perpetrators, for others aversion includes anyone with German ancestry and any situation or product linked to contemporary Germany. This wide range of aversion following horrific experiences is not easily explained by known psychological mechanisms,and has important implications for understanding and ameliorating ethnopolitical conflict. Possible sources of variation in aversion are explored with measures of personality differences and differences in Holocaust experience. Result indicate that degree of trauma during the Holocaust is not significantly related to adversion, and that strong predictors of aversion are degree of blame of Germans not directly involved in the Holocaust, religiosity, and German origin. Aversion to German is strongly related to adversion to contemporary Arabs and Muslims.
AB - Interviews with 29 Holocaust survivors indicate wide variation in degree of aversion to Germans and activities associated with Germany. For some survivors, aversion is limited to those closest to the Nazi perpetrators, for others aversion includes anyone with German ancestry and any situation or product linked to contemporary Germany. This wide range of aversion following horrific experiences is not easily explained by known psychological mechanisms,and has important implications for understanding and ameliorating ethnopolitical conflict. Possible sources of variation in aversion are explored with measures of personality differences and differences in Holocaust experience. Result indicate that degree of trauma during the Holocaust is not significantly related to adversion, and that strong predictors of aversion are degree of blame of Germans not directly involved in the Holocaust, religiosity, and German origin. Aversion to German is strongly related to adversion to contemporary Arabs and Muslims.
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U2 - 10.1207/s15327949pac1201_5
DO - 10.1207/s15327949pac1201_5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33644886954
SN - 1078-1919
VL - 12
SP - 65
EP - 80
JO - Peace and Conflict
JF - Peace and Conflict
IS - 1
ER -