Abstract:Modern societies tend to ignore emotion, especially the emotion of shame. But for that reason, shame especially may become important to understand. Beginning with Norbert Elias and Helen B. Lewis, there is a literature on shame that might help see its' influence, especially how hiding shame may generate anger and violence. There seem to be many recent systematic empirical studies of shame that use other terms, such as rejection, exclusion, loss of social status, social suffering, search for recognition, honor/… Show more
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