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The Self-Conscious Emotions: Theory and Research
From: The Guilford Press Publisher: The Guilford Press Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Label: The Guilford Press Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 493 Publication Date: August 01, 2007
Critical Advances in Understanding Self-Regulation and Social Conformity Not a day passes without something in the news that is a direct consequence of a failure of regulation. A student commits a crime because he has been teased and taunted; a woman is attacked because she has supposedly brought shame on a family or people abuse substances to deal with social pressure. These are the "self-conscious emotions," that include embarrassment, shame, guilt, humiliation and pride. The self-conscious emotions have important roles in psychological and social functioning, and can cause havoc if something goes wrong with them, or if they are activated "inappropriately."
Until recently the study of emotion has focused primarily on anxiety, sadness, anger and depression, but this book considerably expands that focus.
There are 6 sections and 24 chapters:
I. Theoretical Perspectives: Social, Cognitive, and Neural Mechanisms Underlying Self-Conscious Emotions 1. The Self in Self-Conscious Emotions: A Cognitive Appraisal Approach: Jessica L. Tracy and Richard W. Robins 2. What's Moral about the Self-Conscious Emotions?: June Price Tangney, Jeffrey Stuewig, and Debra J. Mashek 3. How the Self Became Involved in Affective Experience: Three Sources of Self-Reflective Emotions: Mark R. Leary 4. Neural Systems for Self-Conscious Emotions and Their Underlying Appraisals: Jennifer S. Beer 5. A Social Function for Self-Conscious Emotions: The Social Self Preservation Theory: Tara L. Gruenewald, Sally S. Dickerson, and Margaret E. Kemeny
II. Developmental Contexts and Processes 6. The Development of Self-Conscious Emotions: Cognitive Processes and Social Influences: Kristin Hansen Lagattuta and Ross A. Thompson 7. The Development of Pride and Moral Life: Daniel Hart and M. Kyle Matsuba 8. Self-Conscious Emotional Development: Michael Lewis
III. Cultural Influences 9. Shifting Meanings of Self-Conscious Emotions across Cultures: A Social-Functional Approach: Jennifer L. Goetz and Dacher Keltner 10. From Appeasement to Conformity: Evolutionary and Cultural Perspectives on Shame, Competition, and Cooperation: Daniel M. T. Fessler 11. A Cross-Cultural Examination of Lexical Studies of Self-Conscious Emotions: Robin S. Edelstein and Phillip R. Shaver 12. Cultural Models of Shame and Guilt: Ying Wong and Jeanne Tsai 13. Respect as a Positive Self-Conscious Emotion in European Americans and Chinese: Jin Li and Kurt W. Fischer
IV. Specific Emotions: Function and Conceptualization 14. Is Embarrassment a Blessing or a Curse?: Rowland S. Miller 15. The Nature of Pride: Jessica L. Tracy and Richard W. Robins 16. The Evolution of Shame as a Marker for Relationship Security: A Biopsychosocial Approach: Paul Gilbert 17. Humiliation: Causes, Correlates, and Consequences: Jeff Elison and Susan Harter 18. Shame and Guilt as Morally Warranted Experiences: Tamara J. Ferguson, Daniel Brugman, Jennifer White and Heidi L. Eyre
V. Special Topics and Applications 19. Group-Conscious Emotions: The Implications of Others' Wrongdoings for Identity and Relationships: Brian Lickel, Toni Schmader, and Marija Spanovic 20. Shame and Guilt in Antisocial and Risky Behaviors: Jeffrey Stuewig and June Price Tangney 21. Wrestling with Nature: An Existential Perspective on the Body and Gender in Self-Conscious Emotions: Tomi-Ann Roberts and Jamie L. Goldenberg 22. Overvalued and Ashamed: Considering the Roles of Self-Esteem and Self-Conscious Emotions in Covert Narcissism: Jennifer K. Bosson and Jennifer L. Prewitt-Freilino 23. Runaway Nationalism: Alienation, Shame, and Anger: Thomas J. Scheff
VI. Assessment 24. Assessing Self-Conscious Emotions: A Review of Self-Report and Nonverbal Measures: Richard W. Robins, Eric E. Noftle, and Jessica L. Tracy
The authors are all experts in their respective fields and they cover everything from basic brain mechanisms to complex social processes.
There is a strong sense that this whole field of self-conscious emotions is a real and important frontier, not only of psychology, but also of neuroscience, social studies and ultimately even the law. Not only are they important for the maintenance of society, but also an understanding of cross-cultural differences is vital in our shrinking world.
The last chapter on "assessment" is particularly striking: It describes and evaluates virtually all the measures that have so far been developed.
This is an outstanding book for anyone interested in emotion, personality, identity, moral development, attachment, relationships and culture in general. Many of the topics are also relevant to such disparate issues as risk taking, gang behavior and nationalism.
Very highly recommended.
Richard G. Petty, MD, author of Healing, Meaning and Purpose: The Magical Power of the Emerging Laws of Life
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