Dataset: The impact of exposure to ingroup perpetrator vs ingroup victim event, ingroup identification and group membership on construals of violence and collective emotions in the case of the Lebanese civil war

The data was collected in, 2019, in the context of a doctoral thesis in social and cultural psychology at the University of Brussels, Belgium. Thesis title: Were we all victims and perpetrators? How national and religious identifications and processes of victimhood and responsibility attributions for the civil war affect present-day intergroup relations in Lebanon. This thesis aims to study the role of ingroup identification in shaping construals of group victimhood and responsibility attributions, in addition to the impact of these factors on intergroup relations. We choose to study this phenomenon in the context of the Lebanese civil war, in Lebanese citizens currently residing in Lebanon, evaluating two types of ingroup identification (national and religious) in the two main religious groups (Christians and Muslims). Quantitative data collected via online survey among Lebanese citizens currently residing in Lebanon. This project aimed to assess how construals of victimhood and responsibility and collective emotions are expressed after being exposed to civil war events, in addition to the impact of group membership and identification on this process. Particularly in this project (among the 5 projects in this thesis) we assessed Arabic and Political identification levels (in addition to Lebanese and religious). Method of data collection (sample description, procedure, variables scales and items), and a codebook (variables names and their code explained, to better understand the csv and sav data files) are provided. CMLCW P1: Collective Memory of The Lebanese Civil War (project acronym) Project #1 (the thesis included 5 projects/Datasets).

The data was collected in 2020, in the context of a doctoral thesis in social and cultural psychology at the University of Brussels, Belgium. Thesis title: Were we all victims and perpetrators? How national and religious identifications and processes of victimhood and responsibility attributions for the civil war affect present-day intergroup relations in Lebanon. This thesis aims to study the role of ingroup identification in shaping construals of group victimhood and responsibility attributions, in addition to the impact of these factors on intergroup relations. We choose to study this phenomenon in the context of the Lebanese civil war, in Lebanese citizens currently residing in Lebanon, evaluating two types of ingroup identification (national and religious) in the two main religious groups (Christians and Muslims). Quantitative data collected via online survey among Lebanese citizens currently residing in Lebanon. This project aimed to assess the effect of manipulating competitive and inclusive victimhood, in addition to ingroup identification, on intergroup relations in Lebanon and other factors (Outgroup attitudes, willingness to engage in contact, intergroup similarity perception, forgiveness, collective action and responsibility attribution). Method of data collection (sample description, procedure, variables scales and items), and a codebook (variables names and their code explained, to better understand the csv and sav data files) are provided. CMLCW P4: Collective Memory of The Lebanese Civil War (project acronym) Project #4 (the thesis included 5 projects/Datasets).

Contains the 3 versions of survey questions (in English, French and Arabic). The data was collected in 2020, in the context of a doctoral thesis in social and cultural psychology at the University of Brussels, Belgium. Thesis title: Were we all victims and perpetrators? How national and religious identifications and processes of victimhood and responsibility attributions for the civil war affect present-day intergroup relations in Lebanon. CMLCW P2: Collective Memory of The Lebanese Civil War (project acronym) Project #2 (the thesis included 5 projects/Datasets).

Supplementary materials [Other]. The related article is Zahreddine, S., Licata, L., Klein, O., & Azzi, A. E. (2026). Collective victimhood and responsibility attributions: The Lebanese civil war through the lens of social identity. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.17805