During the initial trials with my proposed idea, a question arose about the popular usage of guilt to induce behavioral change. It was concluded that it was a failing method for it typically resulted in annoyance and adversity. I came across something that looked deeper into the psychology of that claim.
An online article by the name of Avoiding Responsibilities in Life by Robert Vibert discusses how the human mind cognates the sense of guilt in conjunction with the painful feeling of shame. The article argues that people today are avoiding responsibilities for their actions with denial, by blaming others for even their smallest mistakes. The reasoning for this, it explains, is that most modern day people are confusing the presence of guilt with the emotion of shame. Shame is an emotion that conjures pain, while guilt is one that provokes self analysis. Guilt can be alleviated when you correct your mistake, it teaches you not to do it again. Shame brings humiliation hence activating our pain avoidance tendencies. Thus when the two gets confused together, we blame others for our smallest mistakes to avoid pain.
