Levontin Liat, Yom-Tov Elad
Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyHaifa, Israel.
Microsoft Israel R&D CenterHerzliya, Israel.
Front Psychol. 2017 Jun 28;8:1068. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01068. eCollection 2017.
In this paper, we suggest people use anonymous online forums as platforms for self-disclosing actions they feel guilty about-such as transgressions and unethical behaviors-with the goal of achieving guilt relief through others' reactions. We support this proposition by analyzing field data extracted from Yahoo Answers, an online question-and-answer website. Our analysis shows the level of guilt relief an answer is expected to offer the "asker" (the self-disclosing person) is positively associated with the asker's likelihood of selecting that answer as the "best" response to the self-disclosure. Furthermore, following receipt of a guilt-relieving answer, an asker becomes less likely to engage in prosocial behavior, which is another type of guilt-relieving action.
在本文中，我们建议人们利用匿名在线论坛作为平台，来自我披露他们感到内疚的行为，比如违规行为和不道德行为，目的是通过他人的反应来减轻内疚感。我们通过分析从在线问答网站雅虎问答中提取的实地数据来支持这一观点。我们的分析表明，一个答案预期能为“提问者”（自我披露者）提供的内疚减轻程度，与提问者将该答案选为对自我披露的“最佳”回应的可能性呈正相关。此外，在收到能减轻内疚的答案后，提问者参与亲社会行为的可能性会降低，亲社会行为是另一种减轻内疚的行为。
