Intergroup crimes are a ubiquitous element of our political reality, as are attempts to redress these crimes through apologies. Six experiments (N = 2,432) demonstrate that the victim group's response to an offered apology has the power to shape uninvolved third parties' impressions of the conflicting groups and influence their willingness to support the victim group. Across a variety of intergroup contexts, a victim group's apology rejection attenuated perceived differences between the victim and perpetrator groups by diminishing the morality but increasing the power of the victim group while simultaneously reducing the power of the perpetrator group in the eyes of third parties (Experiments 1-4). These judgments, particularly the less favorable morality judgments of the victim group, suppressed the allocation of valued goods (Experiment 3a), political support (Experiments 3b-4), and actual donations (Experiment 4) granted to the victim group. Regarding the social costs imposed on the perpetrator group, we found mixed evidence. Taken together, these findings highlight the relevance of victim group responses in navigating posttransgression reactions and offer implications for understanding apologetic interactions from the perspective of uninvolved observers. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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拒绝群体间的道歉会削弱受害者和加害者群体在道德和权力方面的感知差异。


群体间犯罪是我们政治现实中无处不在的元素，试图通过道歉来纠正这些罪行也是如此。六项实验 （N = 2,432） 表明，受害者群体对道歉的反应有能力塑造未参与的第三方对冲突群体的印象，并影响他们支持受害者群体的意愿。在各种群体间背景下，受害者群体的道歉拒绝通过降低道德但增加受害者群体的力量，同时削弱受害者群体在第三方眼中的权力，削弱了受害者群体和施暴者群体之间的感知差异（实验 1-4）。这些判断，特别是受害者群体不太有利的道德判断，压制了给予受害者群体的有价商品分配（实验 3a）、政治支持（实验 3b-4）和实际捐赠（实验 4）。关于加诸肇事者群体的社会成本，我们发现了混合证据。综上所述，这些发现强调了受害者群体反应在驾驭越界后反应中的相关性，并为从不参与的观察者的角度理解道歉互动提供了启示。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 （c） 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。