Having pity on our victims to save ourselves: Compassion reduces self-critical emotions and self-blame about past harmful behavior among those who highly identify with their past self

• Ernst Willem Meerholz ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: e.w.meerholz@rug.nl

  Affiliation Department of Social Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4742-3671

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• Russell Spears,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Social Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

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• Kai Epstude

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Social Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

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