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| Title |
Washing the guilt away: effects of personal versus vicarious cleansing on guilty feelings and prosocial behavior
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2014
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00097 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Hanyi Xu, Laurent Bègue, Brad J. Bushman |
| Abstract |
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-hands video, or watched a typing-hands video. After the study was over, participants could help a Ph.D. student complete her dissertation by taking some questionnaires home and returning them within 3 weeks. Results showed that guilt and helping behavior were lowest among participants who washed their hands, followed by participants who watched a washing-hands video, followed by participants who watched a typing-hands video. Guilt mediated the effects of cleansing on helping. These findings suggest that washing one's own hands, or even watching someone else wash their hands, can wash away one's guilt and lead to less helpful behavior. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 19 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 26% |
| Spain | 1 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 5% |
| Australia | 1 | 5% |
| France | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 10 | 53% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 14 | 74% |
| Scientists | 3 | 16% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 11% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 74 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 73 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 10 | 14% |
| Researcher | 5 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 7% |
| Other | 13 | 18% |
| Unknown | 16 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 33 | 45% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 8 | 11% |
| Neuroscience | 3 | 4% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 4% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 6 | 8% |
| Unknown | 19 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 71. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 August 2023.
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So far Altmetric has tracked 7,740 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
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