Moral masochism: on the connection between guilt and self-punishment.
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Inbar, Y; Pizarro, DA; Gilovich, T; Ariely, D
Published in: Emotion (Washington, D.C.)
February 2013
Do people sometimes seek to atone for their transgressions by harming themselves physically? The current results suggest that they do. People who wrote about a past guilt-inducing event inflicted more intense electric shocks on themselves than did those who wrote about feeling sad or about a neutral event. Moreover, the stronger the shocks that guilty participants administered to themselves, the more their feelings of guilt were alleviated. We discuss how this method of atonement relates to other methods examined in previous research.
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Emotion (Washington, D.C.)
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1931-1516
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1528-3542
Publication Date
February 2013
Volume
13
Issue
1
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14 / 18
Related Subject Headings
- Young Adult
- Punishment
- Morals
- Masochism
- Male
- Humans
- Guilt
- Female
- Experimental Psychology
- Emotions
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Inbar, Y., Pizarro, D. A., Gilovich, T., & Ariely, D. (2013). Moral masochism: on the connection between guilt and self-punishment. Emotion (Washington, D.C.), 13(1), 14–18. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0029749
Inbar, Yoel, David A. Pizarro, Thomas Gilovich, and Dan Ariely. “Moral masochism: on the connection between guilt and self-punishment.” Emotion (Washington, D.C.) 13, no. 1 (February 2013): 14–18. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0029749.
Inbar Y, Pizarro DA, Gilovich T, Ariely D. Moral masochism: on the connection between guilt and self-punishment. Emotion (Washington, DC). 2013 Feb;13(1):14–8.
Inbar, Yoel, et al. “Moral masochism: on the connection between guilt and self-punishment.” Emotion (Washington, D.C.), vol. 13, no. 1, Feb. 2013, pp. 14–18. Epmc, doi:10.1037/a0029749.
Inbar Y, Pizarro DA, Gilovich T, Ariely D. Moral masochism: on the connection between guilt and self-punishment. Emotion (Washington, DC). 2013 Feb;13(1):14–18.
Published In
Emotion (Washington, D.C.)
DOI
EISSN
1931-1516
ISSN
1528-3542
Publication Date
February 2013
Volume
13
Issue
1
Start / End Page
14 / 18
Related Subject Headings
- Young Adult
- Punishment
- Morals
- Masochism
- Male
- Humans
- Guilt
- Female
- Experimental Psychology
- Emotions