Berenike Firestone
Biographic Data
| ID | 388147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Berenike Firestone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Berenike |
| FAMILY NAME | Firestone |
| SIGNATURE | FIRESTONE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | WZB Berlin Social Science Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1436-2999 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Facts as a foundation
Informing people about historical atrocities and injustice is considered critical for sustaining democracies and preventing similar atrocities in the future. Yet, what remains unknown is whether exposure to factual information about ingroups' historical injustices, such as genocide, slavery, or colonial crimes, leads to increased willingness to address those injustices. In the first study to systematically assess the impact of such exposure in fi…
Confronting the past in a polarized present
Awareness of past atrocities is widely seen as critical for restoring justice and building resilient democracies. Cultural representations are often deployed by cultural elites to keep the past alive. Yet, we know little about how ordinary citizens respond to them. Through a survey experiment (n = 2198), we measured the effect of three different prototypical cultural representations of the Holocaust on intentions to commemorate the Holocaust, int…
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Confronting the past in a polarized present
Awareness of past atrocities is widely seen as critical for restoring justice and building resilient democracies. Cultural representations are often deployed by cultural elites to keep the past alive. Yet, we know little about how ordinary citizens respond to them. Through a survey experiment (n = 2198), we measured the effect of three different prototypical cultural representations of the Holocaust on intentions to commemorate the Holocaust, int…
Facts as a foundation
Informing people about historical atrocities and injustice is considered critical for sustaining democracies and preventing similar atrocities in the future. Yet, what remains unknown is whether exposure to factual information about ingroups' historical injustices, such as genocide, slavery, or colonial crimes, leads to increased willingness to address those injustices. In the first study to systematically assess the impact of such exposure in fi…
Action (physics) (2 works) · Injustice (2 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (2 works) · Antisemitism (1 works) · Collective action (1 works) · Colonialism (1 works) · Denial (1 works) · Distancing (1 works) · Economic Justice (1 works) · Exploratory research (1 works)