How to silence one's conscience: Cognitive defenses against the feeling of guilt

This work presents an analysis of the feeling of guilt and in particular of the cognitive defenses against it. It shows how the need to avoid or mitigate the feeling, with the suffering implied, affects the perception and judgment of oneself and others. It is in fact claimed that to copy with their guilt people try to alter the appraisal processes implied by the emotion. Once described the main cognitive components of the feeling of guilt, an analysis is offered of the interventions of the cognitive defenses on such components, to alter the original appraisal processes underlying the feeling.

Tipo Pubblicazione: 
Articolo
Author or Creator: 
MICELI, Maria
CASTELFRANCHI, Cristiano
Publisher: 
Blackwell,, Oxford , Regno Unito
Source: 
Journal for the theory of social behaviour (Print) 28 (1998): 287–318. doi:10.1111/1468-5914.00076
info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:MICELI, Maria; CASTELFRANCHI, Cristiano/titolo:How to silence one's conscience: Cognitive defenses against the feeling of guilt/doi:10.1111/1468-5914.00076/rivista:Journal for the theory of social behaviour (Print)/anno:1998/pag
Date: 
1998
Resource Identifier: 
http://www.cnr.it/prodotto/i/216055
https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-5914.00076
info:doi:10.1111/1468-5914.00076
Language: 
Eng