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

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 ...

For children in foster care, safety is only part of healing. Many carry an invisible burden of shame that comes from being separated from their families of origin. Unlike guilt, which says “I did ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Ms. Taylor is a co-founder of the Debt Collective, a union of debtors. Conversations about debt are never purely about economics. They are always, also, conversations about power, morality and shame.