Research Program / Claims / artificial-guilt-8

Humans project their unconfronted frustrations onto national enemies, foreign leaders, or groups.

人类会将自身未面对的挫折投射到国家敌人、异族领袖或群体上。

Concept artificial guilt · Domain Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation · testable prediction · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status supported

This program treats the Seth Material as a source of hypotheses, not as doctrine to be validated. Lead dossiers are AI-compiled from the corpus with a book-and-session citation after every statement; literature reviews are AI web-search summaries whose references were all DOI-verified against Crossref; the agenda draft is an AI synthesis. None of it is Seth's original text, and none of it represents scientific consensus. English fields are machine-translated; the Chinese text is authoritative.

Seth sources (book §session)
Adjudicating experiment
Pre-registered factorial experiment with approximately 2400 people across three countries, manipulating personal frustration or neutral experience, then randomizing to emotion-acknowledgment training or matched control; use fictitious outgroups and leaders with no real causal responsibility, measuring responsibility attribution, hostility, and resource punishment. Separately measure anger, sense of control, collective narcissism, existing prejudice, and awareness of one's own frustration, with 1-month follow-up, over 18 months. The key test is whether frustration acknowledgment selectively reduces the outgroup scapegoating effect.
Suggested paper title
Acknowledging Personal Frustration and Outgroup Scapegoating: A Preregistered Cross-Cultural Experiment
What it would overturn
It will not overturn existing scapegoat models; if validated, it will further deny the sufficient explanation that outgroup hostility only reflects the target group's actual harm.
Candidate labs / funders
Zachary K. Rothschild，鲍登学院，替罪羊与防御性道德愤怒研究：[研究主页](https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/zrothsch/index.html); Lucas A. Keefer，替罪羊动机与个体差异研究
Specificity of Seth's formulation
It heavily overlaps with frustration-aggression, responsibility externalization, and scapegoat models; 'unconfronted' if meaning lack of awareness can add a moderating prediction about conscious level, but the original does not provide measurement standards.
Note
supported is limited to the core that people sometimes cope with their own threats by blaming outgroups; it does not mean all hostility stems from projection, nor does it prove that such displacement is necessarily unconscious.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim artificial-guilt-8, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/artificial-guilt-8