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How appraisals of an in-group’s collective history shape collective identity and action: Evidence in relation to African identity

This research tested the impact of how group members appraise their collective history on in-group identification and group-based action in the African context. Across three experiments (Ns = 950; 270; and 259) with Nigerian participants, we tested whether the effect of the appraised valence of the in-group’s collective history on in-group engagement, in turn depends on whether that history is also appraised as subjectively important. In Study 1, findings from exploratory moderated-mediation analyses indicated that the appraised negative valence of African history was associated with an increa…