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Washing the guilt away: effects of personal versus vicarious cleansing on guilty feelings and prosocial behavior

For centuries people have washed away their guilt by washing their hands. Do people need to wash their own hands, or is it enough to watch other people wash their hands? To induce guilt, we had participants write about a past wrong they had committed. Next, they washed their hands, watched a washing...

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Autores principales: Xu, Hanyi, Bègue, Laurent, Bushman, Brad J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3937805/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24616686
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00097