Doing good or feeling good? Justice concerns predict online shaming via deservingness and schadenfreude
Public shaming has moved from the village square and is now an established online phenomenon. The current paper explores whether online shaming is motivated by a person's desire to do good (a justice motive); and/or, because it feels good (a hedonic motive), specifically, as a form of pleasure...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2023-08-01
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| Series: | Computers in Human Behavior Reports |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451958823000507 |