No place to hide: when shame causes proselfs to cooperate.

Injustice for all or just for me? Social value orientation predicts responses to own versus other's procedures.

In two experiments, the authors investigated how differences in social value orientation predict evaluations of procedures that were accorded to self and others. Proselfs versus prosocials were either granted or denied an opportunity to voice an opinion in a decision-making process and witnessed how someone else was either granted or denied such an opportunity. Consistent with the hypothesis, p...

Shame and Exculpation: Integrating Modeling and Neu- Roimaging Approaches to Social Emotions

C125 SHAME AND EXCULPATION: INTEGRATING MODELING AND NEUROIMAGING APPROACHES TO SOCIAL EMOTIONS Ming Hsu1, Daniel Walsh1, Taisuke Imai2, Takeshi Murooka1, Masataka Watanabe3; 1University of California, Berkeley, 2California Institute of Technology, 3University of Tokyo — Imagine just winning the lottery. How much would you give to friends and acquaintances? Would your choice be different if no ...

Integrity, Shame and Self-Rationalization

Integrity is a non-ordinary commodity. The “sale” of integrity gives rise to the anomaly of shame. If integrity has a price, why do agents experience a disutility (shame) that they try to hide or, by resorting to self-rationalization, try to deny? The proposed view, called “quantum,” explains shame easily. It also avoids another set of anomalies that face heterodox models based on the multiple-...

Book Review: No Place To Hide

Investigating the role of core shame in psychopathologies and effective psychotherapies on it

Clinical and empirical evidence confirming the relationship between core shame and psychopathology types has shown that core shame is the cause of many mental disorders, in this regard investigating the origin of this emotion in the preventive direction and also studying underlying factors for treatment is important. In this paper, by a theoretical review of the causes and origins of this emoti...