Physical Pain and Guilty Pleasures

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21208852
AutoresBrock Bastian (0000-0003-4619-3322, The University of Queensland, autor de correspondencia), Jolanda Jetten (0000-0002-7588-5355, The University of Queensland), Elizabeth Stewart (0000-0003-1299-5423, The University of Queensland), Elizabeth G Stewart (The University of Queensland)
Año2013
Volumen4
Número2
Páginas215-219
Fecha de publicación2013-03-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Psychological and Personality Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1948-5506 • E-ISSN: 1948-5514
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1948550612451156
OpenAlexW2149428611
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas20

Across two studies, the authors show that simply experiencing physical pain facilitates indulgence in guilty pleasures. This is because people feel justified in rewarding themselves when they are the victims of unfair treatment and concepts of punishment are embodied within the experience of physical pain. Study 1 demonstrates that pain leads to self-reward but only in contexts that frame the experience of pain as “unjust.” Study 2 shows that after pain people are more likely to self-reward with guilty pleasures (chocolate) in preference to other kinds of rewards (a pen). The authors find that this effect is only evident for people who are especially sensitivity to personal injustice. The findings provide support for the notion that painful experiences may increase entitlement to rewards through implicit activation of justice-related concepts, allowing people to take liberty with pleasures that might otherwise arouse feelings of guilt

Economic Justice · Embodied cognition · Feeling · Indulgence · Injustice · Pain and suffering · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Psychology of Social Influence · Social Psychology