A cleansing fire: Moral outrage alleviates guilt and buffers threats to one’s moral identity

psychology

[we] test the counter-intuitive possibility that moral outrage at third-party transgressions is sometimes a means of reducing guilt over one’s own moral failings and restoring a moral identity

— Rothschild & Keefer, Motivation and Emotion

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