Contato, Sentimentos Intergrupais e Dívidas Históricas: O Caso dos Indígenas em Goiás.

Abstract

A longitudinal study is reported which examines the consequences of intergroup contact, collective guilt and group-based responsibility over the ingroup’s past misdeeds for the endorsement of reparation attitudes towards the outgroup. Respondents were non- indigenous brazilian high school students (N=1.145/823; time lag = 1 month) and the target groups were brazilian indigenous people. Data were collected in two groups of cities where there was or there was not frequent contact with indigenous people. It was hypothesised and confirmed that group-based responsibility predicted reparation attitudes longitudinally, and this relationship was partially mediated by collective guilt. Intergroup contact was supposed to have negative influence on reparation attitudes, which was confirmed, and this relationship should be mediated by collective guilt, which was not confirmed. These results are analysed and discussed according to the Intergroup Contact Theory and intergroup emotion studies, taking into account brazilian indigenous and non-indigenous intergroup relations.