How Recognition Can Pave the Way To Reconciliation 1 Running Head: HOW RECOGNITION CAN PAVE THE WAY TO RECONCILIATION How recognition can pave the way to reconciliation: The role of acknowledgement of past sufferings and trust on intergroup attitudes Alejandra Alarcón-Henríquez, Laurent Licata, Christophe Leys, Nicolas Van der Linden, Olivier Klein & Aurélie Mercy Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Alejandra Alarcón-Henríquez, Social Psychology Unit, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50 Av. F. Roosevelt, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium (e-mail: aalarcon@ulb.ac.be).