From Shame to Pride

Pride and Shame

Understanding why people respect social norms and exhibit pro-social behavior, many times contrary to their material interest, is an important topic in social science. This paper studies the role of emotions such as pride and shame. Based on various psychological literature, we argue that pride and shame are (i) external (ii) context dependent and (iii) relative feelings. In order to accomodate...

Pride, Shame, and Group Identification

Self-conscious emotions such as shame and pride are emotions that typically focus on the self of the person who feels them. In other words, the intentional object of these emotions is assumed to be the subject that experiences them. Many reasons speak in its favor and yet this account seems to leave a question open: how to cash out those cases in which one genuinely feels ashamed or proud of wh...

3 Shame , Pride and Workplace Bullying

Commentary: Pride, Shame, and Group Identification

In the target article, Alessandro Salice and Alba Montes Sánchez argue that people sometimes feel proud and ashamed of the actions of others whom they perceive to belong to the same group as themselves. The authors maintain that the social self is the target of emotion whereas the other is merely its focus—a background object that makes intelligible the target's instantiating the formal object ...

Service users' self-narratives on their journey from shame to pride: tales of transition.

As part of a course on changing attitudes developed by KREM, a Norwegian service user organization, narratives are used to explore and understand identity formation. The process is based on the role of shame in the lives of those whose life experiences lead to a reliance on government social benefits to sustain themselves. Shame is identified as an obstacle that affects everyday life and underm...