Approaching-Face effect

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(Dobby effect,. Nelissen, R. M. A. & M. Zeelenberg, 2009). • Experiencing pain as a penalty can reduce feeling of guilt (Cleansing the Soul by Hurting the Flesh,.
Xiang Huang, Tong Chen, Mowei Shen Department of Psychology and Behavioral Science, Zhejiang University

 Measurement • Targets = Faces of victims

 The Outcome of Guilty is Pro-social • Guilt may evoke self-punishment in the absent of opportunities-for-compensation. (Dobby effect, Nelissen, R. M. A. & M. Zeelenberg, 2009)

• Response Congruency = RTdistantly - RTclosely • Final Distance = ln(Disadj.) – ln(Disref.)

• Experiencing pain as a penalty can reduce feeling of guilt (Cleansing the Soul by Hurting the Flesh, Bastian, B. et al., 2011, 2012)

Experimental environment

 Guilty Induction • Cooperation task

 Question: How does guilty affect our Inner world ?

Virtual z-dimension

p < .05

90 60 30 0 -30 -60 Guilty

push distantly pull closely

distance on depth? House

120 90 60 30 0 -30 -60

Face

0

-0.05

House

Face

House

120 90 60 30 0 -30 -60

House

0.1

0.05

Face

Guilty

0.10

Final Distance(pix)

reference 300 ms

Third-part Person?

House

Final Distance(pix)

Final Distance(pix)

reaction

z-dimension

Perceptual difference of

Face

0.05 0 -0.05

0.05 0.00

-0.05

fixation 500 ms

p < .05

-0.1 Guilty

Sample = 20

1

2

3

4

5

6

+

-0.1

-0.10

Non-Guilty

Guilty

Sample = 20

+

pix

x-dimension

Guilty

0.1

1200

Target Victim or Any

Non-Guilty

Face

600

Image on the screen

Response Congruency(ms)

120

House

Response Congruency(ms)

Face

Response Congruency(ms)

 Procedure

0

y-dimension

• Guilty = only got themselves benefits (partner victim)

Approaching-Face effect

+

Viewer

• Non-guilty = got both benefits (no victim)

 Hypothesis: Guilty may change the representation of target victims, preferring closely to distantly.

Terrible! I feel guilty!

Screen

Guilty

Sample = 20

+

 Guilty induced during an interpersonal corporation could affect the facial perception of a target person, leading to an approaching-face effect.

Nelissen, R. M., & Zeelenberg, M. (2009). When guilt evokes self-punishment: evidence for the existence of a Dobby Effect. Emotion, 9(1), 118-122

 Such effect is restrict to faces of victims rather than third-part persons, and is not due to perceptual differences of distance on depth.

Bastian, B., Jetten, J., & Stewart, E. (2012). Physical Pain and Guilty Pleasures. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4(2), 215-219.

Bastian, B., Jetten, J., & Fasoli, F. (2011). Cleansing the soul by hurting the flesh: the guiltreducing effect of pain. Psychol Sci, 22(3), 334-335.

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