- mensen die spijt faken, kunnen erg snel van emotie veranderen: ze kunnen makkelijker van negatieve emoties (= verdriet, angst, kwaadheid, minachting, afschuw) naar positieve emoties (blijheid) switchen, vaak zonder dat ze daarbij de fase van neutrale emoties passeren (= neutraal, verwondering) of waarbij ze snel doorheen die 'neutrale' fase gaan.
Dit terwijl mensen die echt gemeend hun spijt tonen, trager evolueren van negatieve emoties, dan overgaan naar de fase van neutrale emoties (en hier langer blijven hangen) en dan pas eventueel weer kunnen komen tot positieve emoties.
- ze spreken meer aarzelend
Voor alle duidelijkheid: het gaat hier om een eerder kleinschalige studie, waarbij het besluit gebaseerd is op gemiddelden (dus gemiddeld bekeken zullen mensen die krokodilletranen huilen, meer switchen in hun emoties dan mensen die 'echt' spijt vertonen).In the first investigation of the nature of true and false remorse, Leanne ten Brinke and colleagues, from the Centre for the Advancement of Psychology and Law (CAPSL), University of British Columbia and Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, show that those who fake remorse show a greater range of emotional expressions and swing from one emotion to another very quickly -- a phenomenon referred to as emotional turbulence -- as well as speak with more hesitation. These findings have important implications for judges and parole board members, who look for genuine remorse when they make their sentencing and release decisions.
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The authors grouped the emotions displayed in facial expressions into three categories: positive (happiness), negative (sadness, fear, anger, contempt, disgust) and neutral (neutral, surprise). They found that participants who were genuinely remorseful did not often swing directly from positive to negative emotions, but went through neutral emotions first. In contrast, those who were deceiving the researchers made more frequent direct transitions between positive and negative emotions, with fewer displays of neutral emotions in between. In addition, during fabricated remorse, students had a significantly higher rate of speech hesitations than during true remorse. ...
uit: ScienceDaily (10 febr. 2011)
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