TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Ghidoni, Riccardo
AU  - Schindler, David
        TI  - Contagious Prejudice: The Marocchinate
        PY  - 2026/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 19051
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp19051
        AB  - During World War II, Moroccan soldiers serving in the French army committed widespread acts of sexual violence against the Italian population, known in Italy as the Marocchinate. We demonstrate that these events led to contagion in prejudice: They triggered a pronounced shift toward the far right following the recent large influx of migrants from Syria, the Middle East, and North Africa. Survey results identify similarity-based activation of collective memory as a likely channel. We thus provide the first real-world evidence that selective recall operates on collective memory and can extend prejudice to unrelated out-groups.
        KW  - collective memory
KW  - contagion
KW  - WWII
KW  - associative recall
        ER  -