The present research investigated whether a recent shame experience shapes people's
moral judgment when faced with the deviant behavior of another individual. After inducing …

Research has shown that people can respond both self-defensively and pro-socially when
they experience shame. We address this paradox by differentiating among specific …

This study aimed to examine the role of social comparison in predicting two dimensions of a
moral emotion, ie shame, among employees working in the private companies in the …

Shame and guilt are unpleasant self-conscious emotions associated with negative
evaluations of oneself or one's behavior. Smith et al.(2002) demonstrated that shame and …

We examined an account of vicarious shame that explains how people can experience a
self-conscious emotion for the behaviour of another person. Two divergent processes have …

Both guilt and shame are moral emotions. Studies often distinguish the two emotions
according to individuals' differing dispositions. From the perspective of social cognitive …

This thesis proposes a new and important aspect of shame, that is, sense of shame, to
reconcile different theoretical arguments and empirical findings in the literature. Sense of …

The aim of this thesis was the exploration of shame. Four experiments are among the very
first to empirically test the validity of Tomkins' shame concept. The relation between …

Shame is a social emotion, and by many researchers it is counted among moral emotions. It
stems from the self-perception that one is viewed as unattractive by others and serves the …

In two experimental studies, we used a moral self-evaluation implicit association task to
investigate reactions to personal moral transgressions. In Study 1, negative self-evaluation …