Department of Social Psychology and Tilburg Institute for Behavioral Economics Research, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
Emotion. 2013 Feb;13(1):14-8. doi: 10.1037/a0029749. Epub 2012 Sep 17.
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.
人们有时是否会通过伤害自己来为自己的过错赎罪？目前的结果表明他们会这样做。与写悲伤或中性事件相比，写过去内疚事件的人对自己施加了更强烈的电击。此外，内疚的参与者给自己施加的电击越强，他们的内疚感就越能得到缓解。我们讨论了这种赎罪方法与之前研究中检查的其他方法有何关联。
