Interventions based on moral exemplars

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dc.abstract.enParties involved in intergroup violence tend to be portrayed in simplified ways, clearly dividing between those perceived as morally bad (often referred to as perpetrators) and those perceived as morally good (often referred to as victims). However, the process of intergroup violence is not as simple and includes a wide and more complex arrays of behaviors, varying in terms of moral evaluation (see Vollhardt & Bilewicz, 2013). One such rare and counterstereotypical behavior, observed among the perpetrators and bystanders of collective violence, is a courageous act of helping victims under high personal risk. Implications of this type of behavior constitute the main topic of this chapter. Acts of help provided to victims by perpetrators or witnesses of collective violence are examples of morality crossing ethnic, national, religious, or ideological boundaries. It is important to accentuate that such help, provided under circumstances of hostility often results in severe consequences for the helper such as ostracism, exclusion, or even loss of health and life for themselves and their relatives. The most widely discussed examples of such heroic actions are people who rescued Jews from death in extermination camps during the Holocaust, awarded with the Righteous Among the Nations Medal. However, such acts of heroic behavior have also been observed not only in relation to the Holocaust but also in contexts of other examples of collective violence in the 20th century. We refer to such acts using the term moral exemplars (Čehajić-Clancy & Bilewicz, 2017, 2021). In this chapter, we propose that exposure to moral exemplars is an effective intervention facilitating positive intergroup relations in post-conflict areas.
dc.affiliationInstytut Psychologii
dc.contributor.authorWitkowska, Marta
dc.contributor.authorBilewicz, Michał
dc.contributor.authorČehajić-Clancy, Sabina
dc.contributor.editorHalperin, Eran
dc.contributor.editorHameiri, Boaz
dc.contributor.editorLittman, Rebecca
dc.date.access2023-10-12
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-16T12:29:51Z
dc.date.available2023-11-16T12:29:51Z
dc.date.created2023
dc.date.issued2023-10-12
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dc.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003288251-11
dc.identifier.eisbn9781003288251
dc.identifier.isbn9781032264271
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/159
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://www.routledge.com/Psychological-Intergroup-Interventions-Evidence-based-Approaches-to-Improve/Halperin-Hameiri-Littman/p/book/9781032264257
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationpsychologia
dc.publisher.ministerialRoutledge
dc.relation.bookPsychological intergroup interventions evidence-based approaches to improve intergroup relations
dc.relation.pages224
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dc.titleInterventions based on moral exemplars
dc.title.journalPsychological Intergroup Interventions
dc.typeMonographyChapter
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