If there's anything we've learned from the coronavirus pandemic, it's that washing our hands is one of the best ways to protect ourselves from the dangers of contagion. But hand washing does much more than cleanse us physically; sometimes it can wipe our mental slate clean. Here are some examples of
Washing your hands is one of the best ways to protect ourselves from infectious diseases, and it also can provide psychological benefits., it’s that washing our hands is one of the best ways to protect ourselves from the dangers of contagion. But hand washing does much more than cleanse us physically; sometimes it can wipe our mental slate clean. Here are some examples of what a bit of soap can do for our psyches.
The researchers concluded that a threat to our moral purity makes us want to get clean and called it “the Macbeth effect,” after the Shakespearean character Lady Macbeth who, after assisting her husband in a murder, feels so guilty that she starts compulsively washing her hands in an effort to cleanse them of imaginary blood. Watching someone else wash their hands produces a similar,We are more likely to judge other people’s “dirty” behaviors harshly when we are feeling squeaky clean.
undergraduates were split into two groups, seated in front of a computer, and asked to rate a hand wipe. The experimental group was asked to use it to wipe the keyboard and their hands, whereas the control group just examined it.
“Washing the guilt away: effects of personal versus vicarious cleansing on guilty feelings and prosocial behavior” by Hanyi Xu, Laurent Bègue and Brad J. Bushman, 28 February 2014,
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