New brain research reveals how guilt and shame shape moral behavior, showing why guilt promotes repair while shame often ...

Guilt and shame arise from different cognitive triggers and rely on distinct neural systems to guide compensatory behavior.

There’s a song in the movie musical South Pacific that talks about how children are not born with feelings of racism. The song explains that racism is something that has to be taught to them. It’s ...

Shame is one of the most powerful emotional consequences of trauma, yet it remains one of the least understood. While fear is often recognized as a hallmark of post-traumatic stress, shame tends to ...

The health and care system should be more sensitive to people's 'shame', and services should be designed to accommodate this, said experts. Understanding shame, and in particular chronic shame, as a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Shame. Guilt. Embarrassment. Denial. Disgust. And fear — of losing a job, friends, colleagues, privacy, safety, even one’s life. There are myriad reasons why survivors of sexual ...