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López-Pérez, B., Hanoch, Y. and Gummerum, Michaela (2022) Coronashaming : interpersonal affect worsening in contexts of COVID-19 rule violations. Cognition and Emotion, 36 (1). doi:10.1080/02699931.2021.2013778
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2021.2013778
Abstract
Experiencing empathy for others has been linked to worsening others’ feelings against their wishes (López-Pérez et al., 2017; Niven et al., 2019). These paternalistic empathic goals (Zaki, 2020) have been theorized to happen at the dyad level when an agent aims to worsen a target’s emotional state. They may also operate at a broader level when agents are third-party observers of COVID-19 lockdown rule violations. In these instances, agents can impact transgressors’ affect engaging in Coronashaming. In three studies, we measured British people’s (Ntotal = 767) vulnerability (Study 1), age (Studies 2 and 3), and empathy towards COVID-19 victims and presented them with different scenarios depicting a breach of lockdown rules to assess the emotions participants wanted to inflict in transgressor, the strategies used, and whether they wanted stricter rules to be enforced. Results confirmed shame as the emotion preferred to induce in violators, with this preference linked to higher use of engagement strategies (i.e., to make transgressors understand what they did wrong). Finally, empathy was positively linked to higher affect worsening and wanting stricter rules to be enforced. This suggests that empathy towards potential victims of COVID-19 rules violations can motivate people to worsen the feelings of transgressors.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | COVID-19 (Disease) -- Moral and ethical aspects, Interpersonal relations -- Psychological aspects, Emotions, Empathy, Moral conditions | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Cognition and Emotion | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0269-9931 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 36 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/02699931.2021.2013778 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Publisher Statement: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Cognition and Emotion on 09/12/2021, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02699931.2021.2013778 | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Funder: | This research was funded by the Behaviour, Brain, & Society Global Research Priority Fund by the University of Warwick | ||||||||
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