The 3 Reasons You Feel Guilty When You Did Nothing Wrong

Why do you feel guilty for saying no when you did nothing wrong? This film separates guilt as an alarm from harm as an event, from Roy Baumeister's work on guilt as a relational emotion to the smoke detector analogy. It unpacks the three gears behind false alarms — the helpfulness rule, the spotlight effect and illusion of transparency from Thomas Gilovich, and inflated responsibility — and uses a two-column test to tell when to repair and when to let the feeling pass.