Quiz 2 Flashcards
How are shame and guilt self conscious emotions?
- Emotions relate to the self or to something related to the self (such as ones own behavior)
From a social functional perspective, how does shame and guilt promote behavior that is beneficial for others or ones group?
- Shame: display reduced status (culture is important determinant of nature)
- Guilt: motivates the repair of some harm one caused
What are the definitions of shame and guilt?
- Shame: condition of humiliating disgrace or disrepute, about the whole person, strong uncomfortable emotion
- Guilt: having committed a breach of conduct, more about specific behavior or inaction, less severe emotion, no distinct display
How is shame and guilt different from emabrrasement?
- More painful emotion
- Greater sense of moral transgression
- More felt responsibility and regret
- More anger at self
- Feeling that others are also angry at oneself
- embarrassment occurs with: more trivial/humorous events, more sudden, sense of surprise, sense of exposure, larger audience
What is the difference between acute and chronic?
- Acute: occurs as a consequence of some specific event or circumstance (short duration, effects are temporary)
- Chronic: evident as a stable tendency over time to feel shame or guilt (personality or disposition, stable and enduring)
How do shame and guilt co-occur?
- When people report shame they also generally report guilt
- Correlation is about 0.60
- For acute and chronic
How to empirically study acute shame or guilt?
- participants do retrospective reports of past experiences where they felt shame and/or guilt
- Induce in lab guilt or shame (IQ test, told in front of everyone that low IQ)
How to empirically study chronic shame or guilt?
- Assessing people by asking to imagine that they are the protagonist in number of different situations where there was some harm or wrong doing
- Participants indicate from a specific list what their reaction would be to the event
- Able to see how much participants feel shame or guilt by how much they endorse each reaction
What is the Test of Self-Conscious Affect (TOSCA)?
- A self report measure on proneness to shame and proneness to guilt
What was found for the situational determinants of shame and guilt by Tangney?
- Guilt was typically induced by moral transgressions often involving harm to other
- Shame was typically induced by specific moral transgression as well as by non-moral situations and issues (e.g., failure in performance situations, socially inappropriate behavior)
- Shame and guilt linked to being concerned about how one affects another person
- Shame has greatest focus on concern with others evaluations
What is the role of public exposure by Smith et al.,?
- Found biases in Tangney research
- SS accounts of guilt may be over represented experience bc people have more private episodes
Are shame and guilt largely felt in public?
- No, shame but not guilt is linked to public exposure
- Gutenberg literature: shame used un public exposure more than guilt
How is acute guilt about an event adaptive as an emotion?
- Guilt leads more forgiveness seeking bc person is feeling more responsible, seeing their offense as more severe and feeling more committed to the relationship
- Repair is beneficial for person and the relationship
- Shows that you care and creates equity/balance in distress
What is the difference between someone who is pro-self and prosocial?
- Pro-self: someone who maximizes their winning outcomes, selfish
- Prosocial: cooperative, maintain fairness
How is shame functional?
- Proself who are led to feel shame are more likely to cooperate with another person after
- If the other person is someone who knows of the shameful experience
- Leach and Sidam say that feeling acute shame encourages people to avoid others and shaming situation
What are the reconciling findings on acute shame?
- Positive effect when people see their own failure as reparable
- Motivates behavior aimed at restoring a positive self image threatened by failure
- Acute shame has negative effects when people see their own failure or tarnished social image as not reparable
What does acute shame encourage/adaptive?
- Self growth and distancing