Pride is a self-conscious emotion, comprised of two distinct facets known as authentic and
hubristic pride, and associated with a cross-culturally recognized nonverbal expression …

Pride, shame, and guilt color our highest and lowest personal moments. Recent evidence
suggests that these self-conscious emotions are neurocognitive adaptations crafted by …

David Shoemaker presents an original, pluralistic theory of the nature of responsibility, built
out of the different kinds of emotional responses people tend to have to the expressions of …

We test the theory that shame evolved as a defense against being devalued by others. By
hypothesis, shame is a neurocomputational program tailored by selection to orchestrate …

Behavioral scientists routinely publish broad claims about human psychology and behavior
in the world's top journals based on samples drawn entirely from Western, Educated …

Morality dignifies and elevates. When Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, God said"
Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil"(Gen. 3: 22). In many of the …

This paper advances an “information goods” theory that explains prestige processes as an
emergent product of psychological adaptations that evolved to improve the quality of …

Gut Reactions is an interdisciplinary defense of the claim that emotions are perceptions in a
double sense. First of all, they are perceptions of changes in the body, but, through the body …

All social relations involve emotional responses, from the simplest face-to-face encounter
through the mobilization of social movements to the commitments that individuals develop …

Although most researchers maintain that shame and guilt are distinct emotions, the debate
on their differences is still open. We aim to show that some of the current distinctions …