Posted on 02/26/2011 10:28:07 PM PST by greatdefender
SATURDAY, Feb. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Your past record of good deeds won't help you escape blame when you do something wrong, suggests a new study. But you may get off easier if you're perceived as a victim. Click here to find out more!
U.S. researchers looked at study participants' reactions to a number of fictional scenarios representing real-life transgressions, ranging from stealing money to harming another person.
The results showed that, no matter how many previous good deeds a person had done, they received just as much blame -- if not more -- than people with less heroic backgrounds.
"People may come down even harder on someone like the Dalai Lama than they do on 'Joe Blow,'" study author Kurt Gray, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Maryland, said in a university news release.
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Already posted and discussed a few days back.
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This required research?
But if you’re a celebrity with a great public relations team you can get away with anything.
Humanity sucks.
“SATURDAY, Feb. 26 (HealthDay News) — Your past record of good deeds won’t help you escape blame when you do something wrong, suggests a new study. But you may get off easier if you’re perceived as a victim.”
Perhaps this explains the victimology of the left.....?
Mr. Gray could have saved all that time/money researching. All he had to do was read Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: “The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.”
Compare Duke Cunningham and Charlie Rangel.
I know this to be true:) People react/criticize or other wise judge me more harshly than they do most others. For instance, my husband, being a very impatient and downright rude/disrespectful guy a lot of the time can get away with saying the most awful things and my daughter will kinda shrug it off but God forbid her mother, me, say something in the wrong way,or that she doesn’t like. Also, you can be a prefectly nice and giving person but if you fly off the handle once or twice or show your crabbiness here or there you are made to feel very flawed. And they never forget it either. I find that people tend to hold small things against me and at the same time they will be very forgiving towards somebody else. I never could figure it out...and yes I can’t help but feel the martyr at times:(
“I never did trust the Dalai Lama.”
I saw him in Montreal once. All that smiling made me suspicious.
It's interesting how you describe the type of man you continue to be married to - and imply how abusive and/or bullying he is toward your daughter, yet your concern is chiefly about yourself and how YOU are treated. Wow. I really feel sad for your daughter; It's no wonder she's resentful.
It’s interesting how you describe the type of man you continue to be married to - and imply how abusive and/or bullying he is toward your daughter, yet your concern is chiefly about yourself and how YOU are treated. Wow. I really feel sad for your daughter; It’s no wonder she’s resentful.
I HAVE SPENT MY WHOLE LIFE BEING CONCERNED FOR MY DAUGHTER’S HAPPINESS AND WELL-BEING WHILE PUTTING UP WITH THE BRUNT OF HIS HYPER TANTRUMS AND SHILEDING HER FROM THEM. SHE IS NOW AN ADULT AND THAT IS TO WHAT I AM SPEAKING. SHE CHOOSES TO BE AROUND HIM, YOU JERK. DON’T YOU DARE JUDGE OTHER PEOPLE WHEN YOU’VE NEVER WALKED IN THEIR SHOES AND DON’T KNOW THE PARTICULARS. I HAD MY CHILD AT 17 AND GOT MARRIED AND HELD OUT HOPE FOR FAMILY AND TRIED TO SHOWER MY CHILD WITH LOVE AND UNSELFISHLY SACRIFICED MY YOUNGER YEARS SO DON’T YOU DARE CRITICIZE ME!!!!
But littlebilly....you do kind of prove what I was saying with your rude judgemental comment. I used the immediate family dynamics but I could have used others. I am what you would call a naive innocent. Or rather was until I hit 35. For some reason expecting the best from people, even though frequently let down. However, instead of seeing my true character people always seemed to think I had to be a phony, manipulative, accusing me of things that had never even entered my mind. It could be that I’m just not good at communication and things don’t always come out the right way. An example of another person: my best friend has Christian parents and 2 atheist sisters. Though she herself is also a Christian, her parents treat the other 2 better and always accuse her of ulterior motives or disrespect her for voicing her opinions if they differ from theirs, even on non-essential Biblical doctrine. I keep reminding her that Jesus did say His true followers WILL be persecuted, or hated, just as he was.
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