School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom.
Department of Psychology in Sopot, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland.
PLoS One. 2020 Dec 30;15(12):e0244429. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0244429. eCollection 2020.
Past research has shown that pain experience reduces feelings of guilt for earlier wrongdoings. In this paper, we aim to investigate whether watching other people in pain can reduce feelings of guilt. In Study 1 (N = 60), we found that participants' levels of guilt and sadness decreased after they watched a one-minute movie clip showing a painful medical procedure. Study 2 (N = 156), eliminated an alternative explanation in which pain observation but not the misattribution of unrelated excitation reduced guilt. Finally, in Study 3 (N = 60), pain observation lowered participants' feelings of guilt but not their feelings of shame. Overall, these results suggest that the guilt-reducing effect of pain may appear even without the actual experience of physical pain.
过去的研究表明，疼痛体验会减少对先前错误行为的内疚感。在本文中，我们旨在探讨观看他人的痛苦是否会减少内疚感。在研究 1（N=60）中，我们发现参与者在观看了一分钟展示痛苦医疗程序的电影片段后，他们的内疚感和悲伤感降低了。研究 2（N=156）消除了一种替代解释，即疼痛观察而不是无关兴奋的错误归因会减少内疚感。最后，在研究 3（N=60）中，疼痛观察降低了参与者的内疚感，但没有降低他们的羞耻感。总的来说，这些结果表明，即使没有实际的身体疼痛体验，疼痛也可能会产生减轻内疚感的效果。
