The Social Psychology of Collective Victimhood

Johanna Ray Vollhardt is Associate Professor of Psychology at Clark University, where she directs the Social Psychology Ph.D. program. At Clark, she is also affiliated with the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the Peace Studies program, and the Center for Gender, Area, and Race Studies. She has served on the governing council and as Vice President of the International Society of Political Psychology. She is a co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Social and Political Psychology.

"The topic of this book is profoundly important. Johanna Vollhardt has been in the forefront of studying collective victimization. She and the contributing authors show the impact of collective victimization on the group and its individual members, responses to it, transmission to future generations, and much more. This is an excellent, wide-ranging exploration."

• Chapter 1. Introduction to "The Social Psychology of Collective Victimhood": Examining Context, Power, and Diversity in Experiences of Collective VictimizationJohanna Ray Vollhardt Section 1: How are Narratives of Collective Victimization Passed Down? Transmission of Collective Victimhood in Families and Communities Chapter 2. Transgenerational Transmission of Collective Victimhood through a Developmental Intergroup Framework: The Lasting Power of Group Narratives of Suffering Laura Taylor, Marina Stambuk, Dinka Corkalo Biruski, & Dean O'Driscoll Chapter 3. Collective Memory and the Legacy of the Troubles: Territoriality, Identity and Victimhood in Northern Ireland Neil Ferguson & Donna Halliday Section 2: How do People Appraise, Feel About, and Respond to Collective Victimization? Affect and Coping Mechanisms Involved in Collective Victimhood Chapter 4. The Context, Content, and Claims of Humiliation in Response to Collective Victimhood Yashpal Jogdand, Sammyh Khan, & Stephen Reicher Chapter 5. A Temporal Account of Collective Victimization as Existential Threat: Reconsidering Adaptive and Maladaptive Responses Gilad Hirschberger & Tsachi Ein-Dor Chapter 6. Collective Victimhood as a Form of Adaptation: A World Systems PerspectiveMichal Bilewicz & James Liu Chapter 7. The Unifying Potential of an Appraisal Approach to the Experience of Group Victimization Colin Wayne Leach Section 3: How do People Make Sense of Collective Victimization? Collective Victim Beliefs, Lay Theories, and Lessons of Collective Victimhood Chapter 8. Studied and Understudied Victim Beliefs: What Have We Learned So Far and What's Ahead? Zsolt Péter Szabó Chapter 9. Community Members' Theorisation of Their Collective Victimization: Deliberating the Dynamics to IslamophobiaNick Hopkins & Anna Dobai Chapter 10. In the Aftermath of Historical Trauma: Perceived Moral Obligations of Current Group Members Yechiel Klar, Noa Schori-Eyal, & Lior Yom Tov Section 4: How Does Social Inequality Influence Collective Victimhood? The Role of Structural Violence, Intersectionality, and Group-based Power Chapter 11. Collective Victimhood Resulting from Structural ViolenceSilvia Mari, Denise Bentrovato, Federica Durante, & Johan Wassermann Chapter 12. Examining Collective Victim Beliefs using IntersectionalityRashmi Nair, Mukadder Okuyan, & Nicola Curtin Chapter 13. Resentment and Redemption: On the Mobilisation of Dominant Group Victimhood Stephen Reicher & Yasemin Ulusahin Section 5: Who is Considered a Victim? Inclusion and Exclusion Dynamics of Collective Victimhood Based on Power and Perceived Legitimacy Chapter 14. Experiencing Acknowledgment versus Denial of the Ingroup's Collective Victimization Michelle Sinayobye Twali, Boaz Hameiri, Johanna Ray Vollhardt, & Arie Nadler Chapter 15. A Critical Race Reading of Collective Victimhood: The Precarious Case of Black Americans Michael J. Perez & Phia S. Salter Chapter 16. "We All Suffered!" - The Role of Power in Rhetorical Strategies of Inclusive Victimhood and its Consequences for Intergroup RelationsAndrew McNeill & Johanna Ray Vollhardt Section 6: What is the Role of Personality Traits and Psychological Needs in Collective Victimhood? Chapter 17. The Tendency to Feel Victimized in Interpersonal and Intergroup Relationships Rahav Gabay, Boaz Hameiri, Tami Lipshitz, & Arie Nadler Chapter 18. Striking at the Core: A Unified Framework of How Collective Victimhood Affects Basic Psychological Needs for Relatedness, Competence, and Autonomy Frank Jake Kachanoff, Michael J. A. Wohl, & Donald M. Taylor Chapter 19. When Two Groups Hurt Each Other: Understanding and Reducing the Negative Consequences of Collective Victimhood in Dual Conflicts Nurit Shnabel, Rotem Kahalon, Johannes Ullrich, & Anna Lisa Aydin Section 7: Ethical Challenges in Researching Collective Victimization Chapter 20. The Ethics of Researching and Writing about Collective Victimhood in Post-Conflict Societies Sigrun Marie Moss