The Power of Political Deja Vu: When Collective Action Becomes an Effort to Change the Future by Preventing the Return of the Past

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dc.contributor.authorChayinska, Maria
dc.contributor.authorMcGarty, Craig
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T23:55:59Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T23:55:59Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the conditions under which political deja vu (PDV), a perceived analogy between past and present societal-level traumatic events, can mobilize people to support system-changing collective action. We propose that individuals' perceptions of PDV can evolve both social identification with a group that sustains the victimized and disidentification with the perceived perpetrators. We further suggest that disidentification and identification can form two distinct psychological paths to collective action through the sequential effects of moral outrage and collective efficacy beliefs. We tested these ideas in a cross-sectional field study (N = 272) in the context of antigovernment protests over a missing activist in Argentina, a country with a legacy of enforced disappearances. The findings demonstrated that perceiving two events from different times as similar simultaneously predicted identifying as a supporter of the victimized and disidentifying with the perceived wrongdoer. Disidentification was found to predict collective action intentions through the sequential effect of collective efficacy beliefs and moral outrage, whereas the indirect effect of social identification was nonsignificant. Results provide an intriguing example of the effects of perceived PDV in social mobilization and extend our understanding of disidentification as a powerful predictor of collective action.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/pops.12695
dc.identifier.eissn1467-9221
dc.identifier.issn0162-895X
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12695
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/95124
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000586628300001
dc.issue.numero2
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final217
dc.pagina.inicio201
dc.revistaPolitical psychology
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectsocial injustice
dc.subjectcollective action
dc.subjecthistorical victimization
dc.subjectdisidentification
dc.subjectidentification
dc.subjectcollective efficacy
dc.subject.ods10 Reduced Inequality
dc.subject.odspa10 Reducción de las desigualdades
dc.titleThe Power of Political Deja Vu: When Collective Action Becomes an Effort to Change the Future by Preventing the Return of the Past
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen42
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sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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