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Not only about “Fear”. The psychology of the common understanding of history
Michał Bilewicz
redakcja@holocaustresearch.pl Author Biographypsycholog społeczny, koordynator Centrum Badań nad Uprzedzeniami przy Wydziale Psychologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Ostatnio opublikował "Być gorszymi. O reakcjach na zagrożenie statusu grupy własnej", Warszawa 2008. Zainteresowania badawcze: dehumanizacja, uprzedzenia, procesy tożsamości społecznej
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5027-1691
Center of Resarch on Prejudices, Department of Psychology, Warsaw University
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 4 (2008), Pages: 517-526
Submission Date: 2020-10-15Publication Date: 2008-11-02
https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.288
Abstract
Publications on the Holocaust and the history of Polish-Jewish relations quite frequently lead to historical debates in the Polish media. On the one hand, it is a unique opportunity to publicise unknown pages of history, and on the other, a potential threat to contemporary Polish-Jewish relations. This article is an attempt to explain the Polish reactions to Jan Tomasz Gross’s Fear and the character of similar debates in Polish media. Thanks to the achievements of experimental social psychology (attribution errors, social identity theory, and the sleeper effect), we can now understand why certain books spawn a media debate while others do not; why the contents of the contested books reach the consciousness of a broader audience and why the debates that surround such books less and less resemble true discussion, in which people cease to talk to one another and engage in polemics against the position of their opponents.
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