Individual Differences and Attitudes towards the Government’s Remembrance Policy
- Institution: Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland) & University of Rostock (Germany)
- Institution: Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland)
- Institution: Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland) & Educational Research Institute in Warsaw (Poland)
- Institution: Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland)
- Year of publication: 2015
- Source: Show
- Pages: 125-139
- DOI Address: http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2015010
- PDF: ppsy/44/ppsy2015010.pdf
The paper presents results of the experimental study on the government's remembrance policy, attitudes towards it, and the influence of remembrance narratives. It discusses individual differences of participants on three different grounds: (1) interest in history or politics, and level of historical knowledge, (2) features of cognitive motivation measured by the need for closure questionnaire: preference of order, desire for predictability, discomfort with ambiguity, closed-mindedness and decisiveness, and (3) response to the presented narrative, including inspired emotions and an assessment of a story. Collected data and research observations offer an interesting and valuable insight into relationships between various factors and citizen's support for the remembrance policy. They also lead the team to formulate three conclusions which may be used to develop theoretical understandings of this aspect of politics within political science and related disciplines.