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Christina Fuhr
University of Cambridge
Known for:Developing and empirically testing the concept of 'vicarious group trauma' — how diaspora Jews experience antisemitic violence against group members as a personal threat, producing hypervigilance across the community
Key findings
- 2016
Through observation and in-depth interviews with British Jews, vicarious group trauma was shown to create real anxiety, perceptions of threat, and hypervigilance even in individuals who had no personal exposure to antisemitic attacks — with the mechanism being affective identification with the victimized group rather than direct experience. Vicarious Group Trauma among British Jews ↗
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