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Shame is a discrete, basic emotion, described as a moral or social emotion that drives people to hide or deny their wrongdoings. [1] [2] Moral emotions are emotions that have an influence on a person's decision-making skills and monitors different social behaviors. [2]
In colloquial usage, contempt usually refers to either the act of despising, or having a general lack of respect for something. This set of emotions generally produces maladaptive behaviour. [1] [2] Other authors define contempt as a negative emotion rather than the constellation of mentality and feelings that produce an attitude.
In cultural anthropology, the distinction between a guilt society or guilt culture, shame society or shame culture, and a fear society or culture of fear, has been used to categorize different cultures. [1] The differences can apply to how behavior is governed with respect to government laws, business rules, or social etiquette.
Vicarious embarrassment, also known as empathetic embarrassment, is intrinsically linked to empathy. Empathy is the ability to understand the feelings of another and is considered a highly reinforcing emotion to promote selflessness, prosocial behavior, [14] and group emotion, whereas a lack of empathy is related to antisocial behavior.
Measures of guilt and shame are used by mental health professionals to determine an individual's propensity towards the self-conscious feelings of guilt or shame.. Guilt and shame are both negative social and moral emotions as well as behavioral regulators, yet they differ in their perceived causes and motivations: external sources cause shame which affects ego and self-image, whereas guilt is ...
For Joseph, it was a classic moral injury. Firing back at the Taliban may have been a justifiable military necessity. But the moral burden, the image of those bloody innocents, the guilt, the shame – the inescapable truth of what he had done – that’s what he evidently took away from Afghanistan.
South Korean gang leader Lee Jung-jae being shame-paraded by Park Chung Hee's military regime (1961). Public humiliation or public shaming is a form of punishment whose main feature is dishonoring or disgracing a person, usually an offender or a prisoner, especially in a public place. It was regularly used as a form of judicially sanctioned ...
Sometimes body shaming can extend to a perception that one does not sufficiently display masculinity or femininity. For example, men with wide hips, prominent breasts, or lack of facial hair or height are sometimes shamed for appearing feminine. [5]