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2024Type
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Abstract
Research shows that people's perceptions of historical violence shape many present-day outcomes. Yet it is also plausible that people emphasize or downplay certain events of the past based on how these resonate with their beliefs and identities today. With a population of diverse orientations involving Russia and Europe, Ukraine in 2019 was an important case for exploring how people's present geopolitical orientations shaped perceptions of victimization in World War II. Drawing on a survey experiment, we find evidence for "motivated reasoning" among Western-oriented respondents, who emphasized their family's suffering in World War II when faced with information that attributed blame to the Soviet regime. We find no evidence for motivated reasoning among the Russian-oriented respondents. Show more
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https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000666539Publication status
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Problems of post-communismPublisher
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