Not so ugly after all: When shame acts as a commitment device
Not so ugly after all: When shame acts as a commitment device
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DOI：
10.1037/a0011991
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发表时间：
2008-10-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Zeelenberg, Marcel
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作者：
de Hooge, Ilona E.;Breugelmans, Seger M.;Zeelenberg, Marcel
大多数关于羞耻的心理学理论和研究都集中在这种情绪的丑陋方面和负面后果上。然而，关于道德情感的理论认为，羞耻是一种激励亲社会行为的承诺手段。为了解决这个明显的悖论，作者研究了羞耻感对亲社会行为的影响。羞耻被假设为激励亲社会行为时，它是相关的决定在手（内源性）。相反，与手头的决定无关的羞耻感（外源性）被假设没有这种影响。四个实验，三种不同的羞耻感诱导和两种不同的亲社会行为的措施证实，内源性羞耻动机的亲社会行为，但外源性羞耻没有。羞耻被证明具有明确的人际功能，因为它是一种承诺手段。
Most psychological theories and research on shame focus on the ugly aspects and negative consequences of this emotion. Theories on moral emotions, however, assume that shame acts as a commitment device motivating prosocial behavior. To solve this apparent paradox, the authors studied the effects of shame on prosocial behavior. Shame was hypothesized to motivate prosocial behavior when it was relevant for the decision at hand (endogenous). In contrast, shame that was not relevant for the decision at hand (exogenous) was hypothesized to have no such effects. Four experiments with three different shame inductions and two different measures of prosocial behavior confirmed that endogenous shame motivated prosocial behavior for proselfs but that exogenous shame did not. Shame is shown to have a clear interpersonal function in the sense that it acts as a commitment device.