Ritual public humiliation

The Humiliation Dynamic

The Fear of Humiliation

A good friend of mine declined a wedding invitation recently although he would very much liked to have accepted. He had no other prior engage-ment?if he had, he would have broken it willingly ?he just did not have a dark grey suit and had no money to buy or hire one?being a student, he has a very limited income. Although his friends, and the couple getting married, said it didn't matter what he...

Affective Dimensions of Intergroup Humiliation

Despite the wealth of theoretical claims about the emotion of humiliation and its effect on human relations, there has been a lack of empirical research investigating what it means to experience humiliation. We studied the affective characteristics of humiliation, comparing the emotional experience of intergroup humiliation to two other emotions humiliation is often confused with: anger and sha...

Human dignity, humiliation, and torture.

Modern human rights instruments ground human rights in the concept of human dignity, without providing an underlying theory of human dignity. This paper examines the central importance of human dignity, understood as not humiliating people, in traditional Jewish ethics. It employs this conception of human dignity to examine and criticize U.S. use of humiliation tactics and torture in the interr...

Humiliation: its nature and consequences.

In this article, we present a new analysis of what is involved when individuals undergo significant public humiliation. We describe the structure of humiliation-that is, the factors that, taken collectively, render certain life events and circumstances humiliating; the most common destructive consequences of being subjected to them; and several personality factors that, when present, can serve ...