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

We describe a model in which guilt and shame associate with reactions to wrongdoing
among perpetrators of interpersonal harm. Individuals who reported wronging another …

The lifetime prevalence of major depressive disorder (MDD) in adolescents is reported to be
as high as 20%; thus, MDD constitutes a significant social and public health burden. MDD is …

Purpose To explore the relationship between shame proneness, eating disorders outcomes
and psychological aspects of patients with eating disorders (ED). Methods Sixty-six girls …

Lethal and nonlethal suicidal behaviors are major global public health problems. Much
suicidal behavior (SB) occurs after the suicide victim committed a murder or other serious …

Blame is multifarious. It can be passionate or dispassionate. It can be expressed or kept
private. We blame both the living and the dead. And we blame ourselves as well as others …

Although researchers have identified a number of factors that may motivate individuals to
engage in nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI), few studies have examined whether motives for …

By neglecting the lifelong importance of having a good reputation, humans can profit in the
short run from immoral behavior. Thus, reputation-protection is an intertemporal choice. In …

Existing measures of trauma-related emotions do not adequately differentiate between
Shame and Guilt nor address their action tendencies. In this study, we developed a novel …

A central adaptive problem for human ancestors was the potential or actual spread of
reputationally damaging information about the self—information that would decrease the …