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Citation |
Ariyanto A, Hornsey MJ. Asian J. Soc. Psychol. 2009; 12(4): 293-299. |
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(Copyright © 2009, Asian Association of Social Psychology and the Japanese Group Dynamics Association, Publisher John Wiley and Sons) |
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Abstract |
Limited research has examined attributional biases in the context of extreme intergroup conflict, and the research that does exist contains methodological shortcomings. To remedy this, 282 Indonesians read a newspaper article describing a violent incident in Ambon. Christians (but not Muslims) used stronger situational attributions for violent ingroup acts than for violent outgroup acts. In contrast, both Muslims and Christians used stronger dispositional attributions for violent outgroup acts than for violent ingroup acts. This latter tendency emerged independently of who was described in the article as the perpetrators of the violence. Implications for our understanding of intergroup conflict are discussed. |