"What I did" versus "what I might have done": Effect of factual versus counterfactual thinking on blame, guilt, and shame in prisoners

Article Abstract:

A study tested the prediction that counterfactual thinking would have a stronger amplificatory effect on guilt than on shame and that the effect would be mediated by self-blame. The findings support an emotional-specific account of emotional consequences of counterfactual thinking that implicate attributional judgment as an important process.

United Kingdom, Psychological aspects, Guilt, Guilt (Psychology), Emotions, Counterfactuals (Logic)

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Interactional justice and the fair process effect: The role of outcome uncertainty

Article Abstract:

The findings on the interactive effect of interactional justice and social comparison information in evaluation of outcome are discussed. The discussion concludes that functional quality effect helps to influences interactional justice and outcome evaluation regardless of the social comparison information present.

Social comparison

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Self-other similarity judgment asymmetries reverse for people to whom you want to be similar

Article Abstract:

A study was conducted on how self-other similarity judgment asymmetry operates. The findings suggest a typical asymmetry for comparison others to whom the participants did not wished to be more similar and a reversed asymmetry in the opposite case.

Judgment, Judgment (Psychology), Report

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