The protective effect of agency on victims of humiliation

Fernández Arregui, Saulo, Gaviria Stewart, Elena, Halperin , Eran, Agudo de los Placeres, Rut, González-Puerto, José A., Chas-Villar, Alexandra y Saguy, Tamar . (2022) The protective effect of agency on victims of humiliation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 102, 1-11

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Título The protective effect of agency on victims of humiliation
Autor(es) Fernández Arregui, Saulo
Gaviria Stewart, Elena
Halperin , Eran
Agudo de los Placeres, Rut
González-Puerto, José A.
Chas-Villar, Alexandra
Saguy, Tamar
Materia(s) Psicología
Abstract Humiliation is a strong negative emotion that arises when a person is forced to internalize an unjust devaluation of the self. Based on theory positing agency as a key factor for self-esteem, we conducted three experiments to investigate whether enhancing the agentic capacity of people facing humiliating situations down-regulated the intensity of the negative emotional experience they felt. More precisely, we tested whether agency, understood as an active behavioral response given by the victims to the perpetrators in potentially humiliating situations, reduced the extent to which the victims internalized a devaluation of the self in those situations and the level of humiliation that they felt. To manipulate agency, we used both an imagined scenario and a realistic setting in which students received a negative evaluation regarding their academic performance and were then encouraged to imagine (Experiment 1) or to actually respond versus not respond to the evaluator (Experiments 2 and 3). In the last two experiments, we additionally manipulated the hostile tone used by the evaluator, resulting in an agency (high vs. low) × hostility (high vs. low) between-subjects design. In all the experiments, we measured the two key appraisals of humiliation (i.e., internalization and injustice), humiliation, shame, and anger. Across the experiments, agency significantly reduced humiliation, and this effect was mediated by the empowering effect that agency had in reducing internalization. Moreover, the results showed that agency affected humiliation in particular, more than shame or anger.
Palabras clave Humiliation
Agency
Self-concept
Self-conscious emotions
Victims
Editor(es) Elsevier
Fecha 2022
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Identificador bibliuned:DptoPSyO-FPSI-Articulos-Ragudo-0002
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DOI - identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2022.104375
ISSN - identifier 0022-1031
Nombre de la revista Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Número de Volumen 102
Página inicial 1
Página final 11
Publicado en la Revista Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 102, 1-11
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Notas adicionales La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en Journal of Experimental Social Psychology está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: Elsevier; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2022.104375
Notas adicionales The registered version of this paper, first published in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology is available online at the publisher's website: Elsevier; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2022.104375

 
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