In life there are times when the watered-plane and do some behavior that ends up affecting us, or hurting another person undeservedly. Of course this comes after repentance and moral raw. This phenomenon is so common that various religions have devised different methods to cure this hangover. One of these methods that share both Christianity and Islam is to atone for sins through the pain. Por ejemplo en la carta apostólica “Salvifici Doloris” el Sumo Pontifice Juan Pablo II comienza “Suplo en mi carne —dice el apóstol Pablo, indicando el valor salvífico del sufrimiento— lo que falta a las tribulaciones de Cristo por su cuerpo, que es la Iglesia”. Por otro lado, en el islam el profeta Mahoma enseñó: “Cuando el creyente está afligido por el dolor, aun si es por una espina, Dios perdona sus pecados, y sus errores son descartados como el árbol se despoja de sus hojas”.
Bueno, pues para variar nunca falta algún científico que target their noses in these matters. This is the case of Brock Bastian, who along with Jolanda Jetten and Fabio Fasoli. Queensland universities, Exeter and Trent, respectively, published the article entitled "Cleansing the Soul by Hurting the Flesh: The Guilt-Reducing Effect of Pain", in January this year in the journal Psychological Science.
What did?
In this study, researchers asked a group of volunteers to remember a time when you had behaved in an unacceptable way, and to rate how guilty they felt about this (through an assessment of affection). After divided the subjects into a group that was asked to keep a hand in a bucket of ice water, and a group that was asked to keep it in a bucket of warm water. Also added a third group was also asked to keep a hand in the bucket of ice water, but not applied the assessment of affection.
What did they find?
The results were very interesting. Group participants who recalled their bad behavior not only hand held longer in the ice bucket, but rated as more painful this action the group not asked to remember misconduct. And even more interesting is that after testing the bucket with ice water, this group got their guilt significantly compared the group also assessed their misconduct, but that was submitted to the bowl with warm water.
The results were very interesting. Group participants who recalled their bad behavior not only hand held longer in the ice bucket, but rated as more painful this action the group not asked to remember misconduct. And even more interesting is that after testing the bucket with ice water, this group got their guilt significantly compared the group also assessed their misconduct, but that was submitted to the bowl with warm water.
The authors suggest that people seem to give meaning to their pain, so arguing that people interpret their pain on a judicial model in which pain is a punishment that serves to atone for their sins. This could mean in certain religions that his soul is purified of its past sins. I think I do not share this line of thought, because according to this, the masochists, or even some types program like a jackass would all saints .. and no, I do not.
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