Social Functions of Shame

Question 1

What are the behaviours motivated by shame? (Yang, Yang, Chiou, 2010).

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Question 2

Why might shame actually be adaptive, despite unfortunate effects?

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Question 3

How might the bodily display of shame also be adaptive? (Keltner, Young, & Buswell, 1997) Might these promote forgiveness?

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Question 4

Why might have empirical research thus far yielded inconsistent results? (Proxyl Harder et al., 1992); Tangney, 1990)

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Question 5

What is shame-proneness related to compared to shame itself?

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Question 6

What are some problems with supposed “measures of shame” such as the TOSCA and the GASP (Cohen et al., 2011)

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Question 7

Shame as a general sociometer?

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Question 8

Why might shame be linked to anger and aggression? Two potential pathways.

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Question 9

Tangney et al. (1992) research on the shame-hostility relationship using TOSCA.

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Conclusions?

Question 10

Tangney et al. (2014), as shame and guilt differentialy affect hostility, does this reflect actual differences in anti-social behaviour?

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Question 11

Why did shame not predict recidivism in Tangney et al.’s (2014) study?

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Question 12

Gausel and Leach’s (2011) conceptual model of shame - reconciling the pro-social motivation and self-defensive motivations.

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