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ArticleFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2022

Guilt is effectively induced by a written auto-biographical essay but not reduced by experimental pain.

Selina Schär, Antonia Vehlen, Julia Ebneter, Nathalie Schicktanz, Dominique J F de Quervain, Lutz Wittmann, Lutz Götzmann, Martin Grosse Holtforth, Sonja Protic, Alexander Wettstein and 3 more

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Article in Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Selina SchärUniversity Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Antonia VehlenAbteilung für biologische und klinische Psychologie, University of Trier, Trier, Germany.
Julia EbneterPsychology Department, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Nathalie SchicktanzDivision of Cognitive and Molecular Neuroscience, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Dominique J F de QuervainDivision of Cognitive and Molecular Neuroscience, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Lutz WittmannInternational Psychoanalytic University, Berlin, Germany.
Lutz GötzmannInstitute of Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Cultural Studies, Berlin, Germany.
Martin Grosse HoltforthPsychology Department, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Sonja ProticInternational Psychoanalytic University, Berlin, Germany.
Alexander WettsteinDepartment of Research and Development, University of Teacher Education Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Niklaus EgloffPsychology Department, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Konrad StreitbergerDepartment of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Pain Center, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Kyrill I M SchweglerDivision of Cognitive and Molecular Neuroscience, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

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Abstract

Introduction: The aim of the present study was (1) to validate the method of guilt-induction by means of a written auto-biographical essay and (2) to test whether experimental pain is apt to alleviate the mental burden of guilt, a concept receiving support from both empirical research and clinical observation. Methods: Three independent groups of healthy male participants were recruited. Group allocation was not randomized but within group pain/sham administration was counterbalanced over the two test-days. Groups were tested in the following consecutive order: Group A: guilt induction, heat-pain/sham, N = 59; Group B: guilt induction, cold-pressure-pain/sham, Results: A consistently strong overall effect of guilt-induction (heat-pain: Conclusion: Although guilt-induction was highly effective on both test-days no impact of pain on behavioral guilt-ratings in healthy individuals could be identified. Guilt induction per se did not depend on the order of testing. The result questions previous experimental work on the impact of pain on moral emotions.

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chronic painemotional memorymoral emotionspain-pronenessstresstrauma

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