‘Unethical Amnesia’ Explains Why People Conveniently Forget Their Awful Behavior
“不道德的健忘症”解释了为什么人们很快地忘记他们可怕的行为
It feels bad to be reminded of unsavory actions — accidentally insulting a colleague, forgetting your sibling’s birthday, acting a fool at your best friend’s wedding. So you conveniently forget about it.
想起那些让人讨厌的行为的感觉很糟糕-不小心侮辱了同事,忘记自己兄弟姐妹的生日,又或者在朋友的婚礼上像个傻瓜一样。所以你很快就忘记了这些。
According to a new study, there’s a name for that:unethical amnesia.
一项新的研究将这种行为命名为 “不道德的健忘症” 。
As author Maryam tells Science of Us, she and her co-author Francesca Gino wanted to examine why people repeatedly do bad things. What the organizational psychologists, of Northwestern University and Harvard Business School, respectively, found is that recalling unsavory actions causes “psychological discomfort,” so people have fuzzier memories of the bad things they’ve done. It has to do with the concept of self: Evidently, it’s natural to discard evidence that you’re not an ethically pure person.
作者玛利亚姆告诉我们说,她和她的合著者法兰西丝卡.吉诺想调查清楚为什么人们重复得做糟糕的事情。西北大学和哈佛商学院的工业组织心理学家分别发现回忆那些令人讨厌的行为会引起心理上的不适,因此人们对于他们所做的那些糟糕的事情的记忆比较模糊。这与自我观念有关:显而易见,抛弃那些证明你不是一个道德纯粹的人的证据会很自然。
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