TY - JOUR A1 - Schruijer, Sandra A1 - Blanz, Mathias A1 - Mummendey, Amélie A1 - Tedeschi, Jim A1 - Banfai, Beata A1 - Dittmar, Helga A1 - Kleibaumhüter, Petra A1 - Mahjoub, Abdelwahab A1 - Mandrosz-Wroblewska, Joanna A1 - Molinari, Luisa A1 - Petillon, Xavier T1 - The group-serving bias in evaluating and explaining harmful behavior JF - The Journal of Social Psychology N2 - Group-serving biases in evaluating and explaining harmful behavior were investigated. Members of the Italian Communist party judged and explained an in-group or an out-group actor's harmful behavior toward an in-group or an out-group victim. The results support the notion of an in-group bias: Out-group actors were perceived as more aggressive and intentional in their actions than in-group actors. An in-group bias was also observed with regard to predictions about whether the victim would attempt retaliation. Group-based explanations were used more often when the group identities of actor and victim were different than when they were the same. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.1994.9710882 VL - 134 IS - 1 SP - 47 EP - 53 ER -