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guilt

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n. 犯罪，过失；内疚

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A reasonable assumption—don't families struggle to avoid nursing homes and suffer real guilt if they can't? In the initial results, assisted living residents did paint the most positive picture.

A reasonable assumption—don't families struggle to avoid nursing homes and suffer real guilt if they can't?

Even parents who can see that a trip is little more than a party or celebration may well feel guilt that their child is left behind.

"There has been a kind of revival or a rethinking about what guilt is and what role guilt can serve," says Amrisha Vaish, a psychology researcher at the University of virginia, adding that this revival is part of a larger recognition that emotions aren't

And guilt, by prompting us to think more deeply about our goodness, can encourage humans to make up for errors and fix relationships.

And vice versa: high sympathy can substitute for low guilt.

Guilt, in other words, can help hold a cooperative species together.

In a number of studies, Malti and others have shown that guilt and sympathy may represent different pathways to cooperation and sharing.

In the popular imagination, of course, guilt still gets a bad rap.

Some kids who are low in sympathy may make up for that shortfall by experiencing more guilt, which can rein in their nastier impulses.

This is why researchers generally regard so-called moral guilt, in the right amount, to be a good thing.

Unlike so-called basic emotions such as sadness, fear, and anger, guilt emerges a little later, in conjunction with a child's growing grasp of social and moral norms.

viewed in this light, guilt is an opportunity.

Work by tina Malti, a psychology professor at the University of Toronto, suggests that guilt may compensate for an emotional deficiency.

You may feel guilt over your past, but you are poisoning the present with the things and circumstances you cannot change.