> Well, either the researchers were unaware of the difference between 
> correlation and causation (which is taught in introductory level 
> statistics), or a website named blogs.howstuffworks.com isn't accurately 
> conveying the conclusions drawn by the study.

Yeah, I found an abstract of the study...
After doing the short "how guilty did the kid feel about
breaking the toy" test, they broke the kids into a
control group and a group that recieved "effortful control"
training, the guilty feeling kids in the control
group did as good later as the kids getting training,
but the kids that didn't feel guilty in the control group
were more likely to have problems than the trained
kids.

So they really proved it both ways. The kids that
have guilt by nature don't need the guilt trips, but
the un-guilty kids improved from repeated exposure
to guilt.

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