I am also presenting a poster at Moral Psychology preconference! Come and learn about moral humility😊 2/

I am organizing a symposium at #SPSP2024 "Threats to Democracy: A Psychological Perspective" featuring talks by Dr Kristin Laurin, Dr Ariel Malka, Alia Braley, and me. Please come visit!!

I'll be talking on whether affective polarization can predict democratic backsliding! 1/

We also found it in 2 conjoint experiments where these four factors were all manipulated in hypothetical cases of historical wrongs and groups. These factors also were related to support for compensation policies.12/

We found evidence for this in 2 repeated measures survey studies where participants rated multiple real historical events varying in their location, groups, intensity etc on these 4 factors , and attributed blame to the current perpetrator groups.11/

Now for results: Do people actually blame current groups for the historical wrongs committed by their ancestors in the past? Yes! Atleast some people do When do they do it? We propose 4 factors (see next) 8/

Happy to share my first first-author paper recently accepted at JPSP! osf.io/j3vp9

We ask: Do people blame current groups for the atrocities committed by their ancestors? If yes, when/why?

We address these using repeated measures surveys and conjoint experiments.1/