Description
Timely and authoritative, this volume reviews the breadth of current knowledge on the self-conscious emotions and their role in psychological and social functioning. Leading investigators approach the subject from multiple levels of analysis, ranging from basic brain mechanisms to complex social processes. Chapters present compelling advances in research on the most fundamental self-conscious emotions: embarrassment, guilt, humiliation, pride, and shame. Addressed are neural and evolutionary mechanisms, developmental processes, cultural differences and similarities, and influences on a wide array of social behaviors and personality processes. A unique chapter on assessment describes and evaluates the full range of available measures.
Chapter
CH$2 What’s Moral about the Self-Conscious Emotions?
CH$3 How the Self Became Involved in Affective Experience: Three Sources of Self-Reflective Emotions
CH$4 Neural Systems for Self-Conscious Emotions and Their Underlying Appraisals
CH$5 A Social Function for Self-Conscious Emotions: The Social Self Preservation Theory
PART I I DEVELOPMENTAL CONTEXTS AND PROCESSES
CH$6 The Development of Self-Conscious Emotions: Cognitive Processes and Social Influences
CH$7 The Development of Pride and Moral Life
CH$8 Self-Conscious Emotional Development
PART I I I CULTURAL INFLUENCES
CH$9 Shifting Meanings of Self-Conscious Emotions across Cultures: A Social-Functional Approach
CH$10 From Appeasement to Conformity: Evolutionary and Cultural Perspectives on Shame, Competition, and Cooperation
CH$11 A Cross-Cultural Examination of Lexical Studies of Self-Conscious Emotions
CH$12 Cultural Models of Shame and Guilt
CH$13 Respect as a Positive Self-Conscious Emotion in European Americans and Chinese:
PART IV SPECIFIC EMOTIONS: Function and Conceptualization
CH$14 Is Embarrassment a Blessing or a Curse?
CH$15 The Nature of Pride
CH$16 The Evolution of Shame as a Marker for Relationship Security: A Biopsychosocial Approach
CH$17 Humiliation: Causes, Correlates, and Consequences
CH$18 Shame and Guilt as Morally Warranted Experiences
PART V SPECIAL TOPICSAND APPLICATIONS
CH$19 Group-Conscious Emotions: The Implications of Others’ Wrong doings for Identity and Relationships
CH$20 Shame and Guilt in Antisocial and Risky Behaviors
CH$21 Wrestling with Nature: An Existential Perspective on the Body and Gender in Self-Conscious Emotions
CH$22 Overvalued and Ashamed: Considering the Roles of Self-Esteem and Self-Conscious Emotions in Covert Narcissism
CH$23 Runaway Nationalism: Alienation, Shame, and Anger
CH$24 Assessing Self-Conscious Emotions: A Review of Self-Report and Nonverbal Measures