Admitir abertamente um erro grave vs. ocultá-lo ou desviá-lo
Se você agir
Admitir o erro grave abertamente
14%
Se você não agir
Ocultar ou desviar o erro grave
40%
Porcentagem de quem mais tarde se arrepende de cada escolha. As barras e o registro completo aparecem abaixo.
Estilo de vida
Última revisão 2026-05-13
Qualidade das evidências 3.38/5
Pontuação de revisão em oito dimensões segundo a
grelha de qualidade
. Cada dimensão pontuada de 1 a 5.
D1 Verificação das fontes
3/5
D2 Autoridade e independência das fontes
3/5
D3 Precisão da taxa de arrependimento
2/5
D4 Comparabilidade das fontes
2/5
D5 Padrão de Gilovich
4/5
D6 Qualidade da prosa
4/5
D7 Completude das ressalvas
5/5
D8 Qualidade da amostra
4/5
Média3.38/5
Dados proxy — não existe nenhuma pesquisa direta sobre arrependimento para esta decisão. As taxas são derivadas de pontuações de satisfação e dados de barreiras de acesso em vez de perguntas que perguntavam diretamente sobre arrependimento. Veja advertências abaixo.
Arrependimento por ação
Admitir o erro grave abertamente
14%
nenhuma pesquisa direta mede isto; os ~14% são um proxy do autor para a minoria cuja admissão sai pela culatra (dano à carreira ou aos relacionamentos), ancorado na evidência da direção do efeito de que admitir a culpa é amplamente valorizado e reconstrói a confiança -- não uma taxa medida de pessoas que admitiram e relatam maus resultados
Profissionais e adultos que revelaram um erro significativo
pesquisa transversal, 2015; experimental, 2004
Arrependimento por omissão
Ocultar ou desviar o erro grave
40%
nenhuma pesquisa direta mede isto; os ~40% são um proxy do autor ancorado na constatação do World Regret Survey de que os arrependimentos morais (que incluem encobrir erros) estão entre os tipos de arrependimento mais intensos e persistentes -- não uma taxa medida de pessoas que encobriram e relatam culpa contínua
Adultos que conscientemente ocultaram um erro pessoal ou profissional significativo
estimativas clínicas, 2021; pesquisa em larga escala sobre arrependimento, 2021
% se arrependem desta escolha
Admitir o erro grave abertamenteOcultar ou desviar o erro grave
14%40%
inaction dominates — A inacção domina — a maioria arrepende-se de não ter agido.
Decisões relacionadas
Decisões semanticamente semelhantes — mesmo terreno, compromissos diferentes.
The peer-reviewed and survey evidence consistently points to admitting a serious mistake producing positive outcomes for most people in most contexts. Ma and colleagues’ experimental trust-game study (Frontiers in Psychology, 2019) found that receiving an apology — an admission of fault — made participants more likely to trust their counterpart than receiving no apology, an effect mediated by perceived trustworthiness; the benefit held for those experiencing less negative emotion and weakened for those still highly aggrieved. A Dale Carnegie Training survey of nearly 3,100 employees across 13 countries (reported in The Public Manager) found that 81 percent of respondents valued a leader who admits when they are wrong, while only 41 percent felt their supervisors could be trusted to do so consistently — the largest importance-versus-practice gap of any leadership behavior surveyed. Neither source measures how often admission backfires on the person who admits, so the ~14 percent action rate shown here is not a measured consequence rate but an author proxy: a small-minority estimate for the subset of disclosures made in hierarchical, punitive, or high-emotion environments where admission is weaponised against the person who made it. It is flagged proxy_only and should be read as a directional estimate, not a survey statistic.
The inaction side has no direct survey: no published study reports the proportion of people who concealed a serious mistake and later report ongoing guilt or regret about the concealment itself. The ~40% rate shown here is an explicit author proxy (the entry is flagged proxy_only), anchored only on direction-of-effect evidence. Daniel Pink’s World Regret Survey (n=26,000+, 105 countries) is the strongest anchor: moral regrets — the category that includes covering up mistakes and acting against one’s own values — make up roughly 10 percent of all reported regrets but are rated among the most emotionally intense and long-lasting of all regret types. Secrecy research synthesised by Slepian (Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2024; ~1,000 participants, thousands of secrets) finds that the more a person’s mind wanders to a concealed matter, the more it harms well-being, with concealment associated with lower life satisfaction, anxiety, and isolation. Both lines of evidence point to concealment carrying a sustained psychological cost, but neither establishes a rate; the 40% figure should be read as a directional estimate, not a measured survey statistic.
The regret_delta of -0.26 reflects the pattern identified by Gilovich and Medvec across multiple decision domains: in the short term, admission is the more painful option — the immediate exposure, embarrassment, and risk of negative consequences are concrete and salient, while the long-term cost of concealment is diffuse and delayed. Over time, this asymmetry reverses. People who admitted mistakes and survived the consequences generally move past them; people who concealed significant errors carry the ongoing psychological burden of concealment and the escalating risk of discovery. The Gilovich inaction-dominance pattern fits this entry well. The main caveat is context: in highly hierarchical or legally consequential environments, where admission carries career-ending or criminal risk, the action-regret rate can approach or exceed the inaction-regret rate, and the entry’s inaction-dominance finding should not be applied to those high-stakes outlier situations without accounting for the specific professional and legal context.
Fontes: acção
Registro de evidências
Cada número abaixo é o que cada fonte relatou, com a citação literal em que nos baseamos e como chegamos ao nosso valor. Clique em qualquer link para verificar diretamente.
2/2 fontes verificadas de forma independente palavra por palavra em relação à fonte citada
[1]The Public Manager (Association for Talent Development), reporting Dale Carnegie Training survey — The Value of Acknowledging Your Mistakes
Verificado
Fonte de referência
In a Dale Carnegie Training survey of nearly 3,100 employees across 13 countries, 81% said having a leader who admits when they are wrong is important or very important to inspiring their best efforts, but only 41% said their supervisors could be trusted to do so consistently -- a 40-point gap, the largest of any leadership behavior surveyed.
Trecho
“A recent online survey conducted by Dale Carnegie Training of nearly 3,100 employees across 13 countries found that "admitting when they are wrong" produced the largest gap of any of the leadership behaviors in terms of the difference between its importance to employees and its consistent performance by supervisors. Eighty-one percent of respondents said that having a leader who will admit to being wrong is important or very important to inspiring them to give their best efforts at work, but only 41 percent said their supervisors could be trusted to do so consistently -- a gap of 40 percent.
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Dados da fonte de
2016-01-01
Acessado
2026-07-01
Verificação
Trecho obtido novamente de forma independente e confirmado palavra por palavra em relação à fonte citada durante nossa auditoria de fundamentação.
Cálculo
Dale Carnegie Training survey, n=~3,100 across 13 countries, reported in The Public Manager (Association for Talent Development). This source measures the VALUE employees place on leaders admitting mistakes: 81% say it is important, but only 41% see it consistently -- a 40-point importance-vs-practice gap. CRITICAL: it does NOT measure the proportion of people who admitted a serious mistake and later faced negative career consequences or regretted the admission. It cannot anchor a specific action-side regret rate. It supports only the DIRECTION -- admission is broadly valued, and a majority of employees would rather work under leaders who admit error -- consistent with a low action-side regret rate, but the ~14% magnitude is an author proxy disclosed in the regret_display, not a figure from this survey. Replaces a prior citation to a Workstars blog URL that carried a "14% faced lasting negative career consequences" figure the source does not contain (that consequence rate could not be located in any published survey).
[2]Frontiers in Psychology (PubMed Central), Ma et al. 2019 — Apologies Repair Trust via Perceived Trustworthiness and Negative Emotions
Verificado
Revisado por pares
Experimental trust-game study (PMC6457316): participants who received an apology (an admission of fault) were more likely to trust their counterpart than those who did not, mediated by perceived trustworthiness; the benefit held for those with less negative emotion.
Trecho
“Participants who received an apology were more likely to trust in their counterpart, compared to those who did not receive an apology, and this relationship was mediated by perceptions of the transgressor's trustworthiness. Additionally, the relationship between apologies and perceptions of the transgressor's trustworthiness was moderated by negative emotions; apologies only improved perceptions of trustworthiness for participants who experienced less negative emotions.
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Dados da fonte de
2019-04-03
Acessado
2026-07-01
Verificação
Trecho obtido novamente de forma independente e confirmado palavra por palavra em relação à fonte citada durante nossa auditoria de fundamentação.
Cálculo
Ma, Wylie, Luo, He, Jiang, Zhang, Xu and Evans (2019), Frontiers in Psychology, PMC6457316. Experimental trust-game study on trust repair after a violation. Cited as corroborating authoritative source for the action side: admitting fault (apologizing) generally repairs trust and improves perceived trustworthiness relative to not apologizing -- but the effect is dampened when the wronged party holds strong negative emotion. This supports the DIRECTION that admission is broadly beneficial (low action-side regret) while noting a moderating condition (high-emotion / adversarial contexts) where admission helps less. It does NOT provide a percentage of admitters who regret admitting, so it supports the direction only, not the ~14% proxy magnitude. Replaces a prior citation to Lozano and Laurent (2019, PLoS ONE, PMC6405044): that paper is real but its actual finding concerns whether observers expect OTHER unrelated agents to shift blame, and it does not support the excerpt previously attributed to it.
Fontes: inacção
Registro de evidências
Cada número abaixo é o que cada fonte relatou, com a citação literal em que nos baseamos e como chegamos ao nosso valor. Clique em qualquer link para verificar diretamente.
1/2 fontes verificadas de forma independente palavra por palavra em relação à fonte citada
[1]Current Directions in Psychological Science (Slepian, 2024) — The New Psychology of Secrecy
Verificado
Revisado por pares
Across studies of ~1,000 participants holding thousands of secrets, the more frequently people's minds wander to a concealed secret, the more that secret harms their well-being -- mind-wandering to secrets is related to lower life satisfaction, anxiety, and loneliness. (The research reports correlational associations, not a percentage of concealers who regret concealing.)
Trecho
“The more frequently people's minds wander to their secrets (outside of concealment contexts), the more those secrets harm their well-being. Mind wandering to secrets increases feelings of shame, isolation, uncertainty, and inauthenticity and is related to lower life satisfaction, anxiety, and loneliness. Frequent concealment of secrets is not by itself associated with stress; the harm comes from repetitive thinking about the concealed information rather than the act of concealment during conversations.
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Dados da fonte de
2024-06-01
Acessado
2026-06-30
Verificação
Trecho obtido novamente de forma independente e confirmado palavra por palavra em relação à fonte citada durante nossa auditoria de fundamentação.
Cálculo
Slepian (2024), "The New Psychology of Secrecy," Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol. 33 Issue 3, synthesizing the secrecy research program (Slepian et al. 2017 onward, ~1,000 participants, thousands of secrets). Cited as authoritative evidence that concealing a significant matter is associated with sustained psychological burden (lower life satisfaction, anxiety, isolation) via repetitive mind-wandering. CRITICAL: this body of work reports correlational associations between secrecy and well-being -- it does NOT report a percentage of people who concealed a mistake and report ongoing guilt or regret. It cannot anchor a specific rate. It supports only the DIRECTION (concealment carries ongoing cost), not the 40% proxy magnitude, which remains an author estimate disclosed in the regret_display. Replaces a prior Psychology Today citation that had been attributed a "40-60% longitudinal clinical" figure the source does not contain (the source is qualitative clinical commentary with no percentages).
[2]Daniel H. Pink / worldregretsurvey.com — World Regret Survey↗ 3 other entries
Estudo primário
n=26,000+ respondents across 105 countries: moral regrets -- acting against one's own values, including covering up mistakes -- constitute approximately 10% of all regrets but are rated among the most emotionally intense and long-lasting of all regret categories.
Trecho
“[Paraphrase from World Regret Survey data and Pink, The Power of Regret (2022).] The World Regret Survey (n=26,000+, 105 countries) found that moral regrets -- situations where people acted against their own values, including concealing mistakes, deceiving others, or acting unethically when they knew better -- are disproportionately intense relative to their frequency. While moral regrets constitute approximately 10 percent of all regrets reported, they are rated among the highest in emotional intensity, persistence, and disruption to wellbeing. Pink identifies moral regrets as one of four "deep structure" regret categories that persist across cultures and demographic groups.
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Dados da fonte de
2021-01-01
Acessado
2026-05-13
Cálculo
Daniel H. Pink, World Regret Survey (2021), n=26,000+ across 105 countries. Primary authoritative anchor for the inaction-side proxy: moral regrets (the category that encompasses covering up serious mistakes) constitute roughly 10% of all reported regrets but are rated among the most emotionally intense and long-lasting of all regret types. CRITICAL: the survey does NOT measure "what proportion of people who concealed a mistake regret it" -- that is a category-share and intensity finding, not a rate. Moral regrets as a category are the proxy for direction (concealment regret, once present, tends to be severe and persistent rather than transient); they do not establish the ~40% magnitude, which is an author estimate disclosed as a proxy in the regret_display. The prior derivation that blended a non-existent "40-60% clinical midpoint" with this survey to manufacture 51% has been removed.
Ressalvas
A taxa de arrependimento pela ação de ~14% é um proxy explícito do autor (proxy_only), NÃO uma taxa medida: nenhuma pesquisa publicada relata a proporção de pessoas que admitiram um erro grave e depois enfrentaram consequências negativas duradouras ou se arrependeram da admissão. A pesquisa direta disponível (Dale Carnegie, n=~3.100, 13 países) mede apenas o VALOR que os funcionários atribuem a líderes que admitem erros -- 81% dizem que é importante, 41% veem isso de forma consistente -- não qualquer taxa de consequência; e o trabalho experimental (Ma et al. 2019) mostra que a admissão em geral reconstrói a confiança, atenuada apenas quando a parte prejudicada nutre forte emoção negativa. Ambos ancoram a DIREÇÃO (a admissão é amplamente benéfica, portanto a taxa em que sai pela culatra é baixa), mas nenhum estabelece a magnitude de 14%, que é uma estimativa do autor para uma pequena minoria em contextos hierárquicos, punitivos ou de alta emoção, e pode subestimar a taxa real nas culturas profissionais mais punitivas. Uma versão anterior desta entrada atribuía a uma página de blog da Workstars uma cifra de "14% enfrentaram consequências negativas duradouras na carreira" que ela não contém, e citava um artigo experimental não relacionado (Lozano & Laurent 2019, sobre a expectativa de que OUTROS agentes transfiram a culpa) com um trecho fabricado; ambos foram substituídos por fontes cujos trechos são literais. A taxa de ~40% do lado da inação é um proxy explícito do autor (proxy_only), NÃO uma taxa medida: nenhuma pesquisa publicada relata a proporção de pessoas que encobriram um erro grave e relatam culpa ou arrependimento contínuos quanto ao encobrimento. O proxy está ancorado apenas em evidência da direção do efeito -- a constatação do World Regret Survey de que os arrependimentos morais (que incluem encobrir erros) estão entre os tipos de arrependimento mais intensos e persistentes, e a pesquisa sobre segredos (Slepian) mostrando que o encobrimento está associado a menor bem-estar, ansiedade e isolamento. Ambos ancoram a DIREÇÃO (o encobrimento acarreta um custo contínuo), não a magnitude. Uma versão anterior desta entrada derivava uma cifra de "51%" combinando uma estatística inexistente de "40-60% clínico longitudinal" (atribuída incorretamente a um comentário da Psychology Today que não contém tal número) com a constatação qualitativa de intensidade do World Regret Survey; esse composto foi removido e o lado foi rerrotulado como um proxy declarado. O contexto importa substancialmente: em ambientes altamente hierárquicos, politicamente carregados ou juridicamente relevantes, a admissão acarreta maior risco de carreira do que a evidência amplamente positiva da direção do efeito (pesquisa Dale Carnegie, Ma et al. 2019) sugere, e a taxa de arrependimento pela ação nesses contextos pode se aproximar ou exceder a taxa de arrependimento pela inação. A constatação de dominância da inação nesta entrada aplica-se com mais força a contextos entre pares e interpessoais; em ambientes corporativos de gestão de desempenho rígida, o cálculo de resultado pode se inverter. A decisão também nem sempre é claramente binária: muitas pessoas admitem versões parciais de erros, desviam parcialmente, ou revelam para alguns públicos mas não para outros, tornando o enquadramento ação/inação um tanto estilizado em relação à distribuição de comportamentos no mundo real.
