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But in our culture, the psychological guilt is spiritually unforgiving.
This evidence is clearly consistent with psychological guilt aversion theory.
Since in psychological guilt aversion theory second-order beliefs influence behavior, unchosen alternatives of one person might have an effect on the behavior of another person.
Psychological guilt aversion – as modeled by Battigalli and Dufwenberg (2007) – is the hypothesis that people feel guilty if they think that they violate othersʼ payoff expectations.
We conclude that promises are behaviorally relevant but that their impact cannot be explained by psychological guilt aversion theory alone, and that money burning is less powerful in practice than in theory.
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Possible psychological explanations include guilt, hostility and anxiety.
THE INTERVIEW -- From Australia, a psychological drama about guilt, innocence and truth.
While not directly gamification, OPower leverages similar psychological triggers, including guilt and innate competitiveness.
Maier notes that the psychological concepts of guilt, fear, and remorse drive the novel.
The supporting characters are presented as simple psychological riddles — a guilt-ridden flier (Bobby Darin), a schizophrenic colonel (Eddie Albert) and so on — that Captain Newman solves with a single, penetrating insight.
If they are unable to justify what they have done, they often suffer guilt and psychological trauma".
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