Guilt, Practical Identity, and Moral Staining

Universalizability and Practical Identity

Guilt Proneness and Moral Character

Guilt proneness is a personality trait indicative of a predisposition to experience negative feelings about personal wrongdoing, even when the wrongdoing is private. It is characterized by the anticipation of feeling bad about committing transgressions rather than by guilty feelings in a particular moment or generalized guilty feelings that occur without an eliciting event. Our research has rev...

Institutions , Shared Guilt , and Moral Transgression ∗

We study how institutional design influences moral transgression. People are heterogeneous in their feelings of guilt and can share guilt with others. Institutions determine the number of supporters necessary for immoral outcomes to occur. With more supporters required, every supporter can share guilt more easily. This facilitates becoming a supporter. Conversely, an institution requiring more ...

Moral Guilt: An Agent-Based Model Analysis

In this article we analyze the influence of a concrete moral emotion (i.e. moral guilt) on strategic decision making. We present a normal form Prisoner’s Dilemma with a moral component. We assume that agents evaluate the game’s outcomes with respect to their ideality degree (i.e. how much a given outcome conforms to the player’s moral values), based on two proposed notions on ethical preference...

Markets and Choice Economics of Change Institutions, Shared Guilt, and Moral Transgression Institutions, Shared Guilt, and Moral Transgression *

Institutions, Shared Guilt, and Moral Transgression* Dominik Rothenhäusler, Nikolaus Schweizer, and Nora Szech We study how institutional design influences moral transgression. People are heterogeneous in their feelings of guilt and can share guilt with others. Institutions determine the number of supporters necessary for immoral outcomes to occur. With more supporters required, every supporter...