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White guilt and racial compensation: the benefits and limits of self-focusAarti Iyer
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz 95064, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 29:117-29. 2003..Our findings demonstrate the benefits and limits of group-based guilt as a basis of support for social equality and highlight the value of understanding the specific emotions elicited in intergroup contexts...
Angry opposition to government redress: when the structurally advantaged perceive themselves as relatively deprivedColin Wayne Leach
Department of Psychology, University of California Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Br J Soc Psychol 46:191-204. 2007..Theoretical and political implications are discussed...
Affirmative action. Psychological data and the policy debatesFaye J Crosby
Department of Psychology, Social Sciences II, Room 277, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Am Psychol 58:93-115. 2003..The merit-based argument, grounded in empirical studies, concludes that the policy of affirmative action conforms to the American ideal of fairness and is a necessary policy...
Understanding affirmative actionFaye J Crosby
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 57:585-611. 2006..We also review how psychologists have examined variations in people's attitudes toward affirmative action, in part as a means for testing different theories of social behavior...
Anger and guilt about ingroup advantage explain the willingness for political actionColin Wayne Leach
University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 32:1232-45. 2006..Although guilt was associated with the abstract goal of systemic compensation, guilt did not explain willingness for political action. Results underline the importance of examining specific group-based emotions in intergroup relations...
Why individuals protest the perceived transgressions of their country: the role of anger, shame, and guiltAarti Iyer
School of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter, England
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 33:572-87. 2007..Guilt did not independently predict any political action intentions. Implications for the study of political action and emotions in intergroup contexts are discussed...
