You have a guilty conscience. What do you do? When given a list of possible reactions to guilt, high RWAs were very likely to say they ask God for forgiveness. They did not check off things like “I discuss what I did with those who may have suffered and make it up to them” or “I talk to someone close, such as a good friend or relative, about what I did.” Low RWAs did those sorts of things but received little relief. They still felt crummy afterward, maybe because they had seen firsthand the damage they had done or knew knowledge of their misdeed had now spread. But authoritarian followers felt
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