Moral masochism: On the connection between guilt and self-punishment

Emotion

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 14-18

  Inbar, Yoel ^a   Pizarro, David A ^b   Gilovich, Thomas ^b   Ariely, Dan ^c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Guilt; Morality; Self punishment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; EMOTION; EXTRAMARITAL SEX; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GUILT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASOCHISM; MORAL MASOCHISM; MORALITY; PUNISHMENT; SHOCK; ADULT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPRESSION; EQUIPMENT; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; DEPRESSION; ELECTROSHOCK; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMANS; MALE; MASOCHISM; MORALS; PUNISHMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879484063     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0029749     Document Type: Article

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