@article{ref1,
title="Glorifying national identification increases schadenfreude about asylum seekers when they are a threat, not entitled to seek asylum, and blamed for their adversity",
journal="Comprehensive results in social psychology",
year="2017",
author="Berndsen, Mariette and Thomas, Emma F. and McGarty, Craig and Bliuc, Ana-Maria and Hendres, Daniela Muntele",
volume="2",
number="2-3",
pages="166-198",
abstract="The purpose of the current research is to explore how mode of identification (glorification versus attachment) results in either schadenfreude &quot;with a bad conscience&quot; (S-BC) about disadvantaged people, or prosocial emotional responses (sympathy and guilt) towards them through appraisals of entitlement, realistic threat, and blame. These relationships were investigated amongst Australians (N = 213) and Romanians (N = 210) in relation to the treatment of asylum seekers in detention centres in those two countries. Consistent with hypotheses, Australian glorifying identifiers considered asylum seekers to be a threat to well-being and to not be entitled to seek asylum. Asylum seekers were therefore blamed for their situation in detention centres and this enhanced group-based S-BC. Very different findings were observed for attached identifiers who expressed group-based sympathy and guilt towards asylum seekers. Similar pathways were observed in the Romanian sample except for the role of entitlement. Moreover, S-BC and related constructs were relatively strong in the Australian sample. The findings are important because they point to the foundations of group-based S-BC. <br><br>FINDINGS are discussed in relation to the current scale of the global refugee crisis.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2374-3603",
doi="10.1080/23743603.2017.1360573",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23743603.2017.1360573"
}