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People who feel guilty may be more likely to exercise restraint, [19] avoid self-indulgence, [20] and exhibit less prejudice. [21] Guilt appears to prompt reparatory behaviors to alleviate the negative emotions that it engenders. People appear to engage in targeted and specific reparatory behaviors toward the persons they wronged or offended. [22]
Pathos tends to use "loaded" words that will get some sort of reaction. Examples could include "victim", in a number of different contexts. In certain situations, pathos may be described as a "guilt trip" based on the speaker trying to make someone in the audience or the entire audience feel guilty about something.
Sadly, according to Dr. Greene, an emotionally immature person may eventually go so far as to threaten self-harm or use other manipulative language (i.e. a guilt trip) to make someone feel guilty ...
If someone were to feel joy by the victim's fall from grace, they would be experiencing schadenfreude. Roman holiday is a metaphor from Byron's poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, where a gladiator in ancient Rome expects to be "butchered to make a Roman holiday" while the audience would take pleasure from watching his suffering. The term suggests ...
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Knowing that someone close to them wants love, approval or confirmation of identity and self-esteem, blackmailers may threaten to withhold them (e.g., withhold love) or take them away altogether, making the second person feel they must earn them by agreement. [6] Fear, obligation or guilt is commonly referred to as "FOG".
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It is related to, although distinguishable from, "shame", in that the former involves an awareness of causing injury to another, while the latter arises from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, or ridiculous, done by oneself. One might feel guilty for having hurt someone, and also ashamed of oneself for having done so. [3]