1. What Is So Important about Shame and Guilt?
2. What Is the Difference between Shame and Guilt?
3. Assessing Shame and Guilt
4. Our Intrapersonal Relationship: The Self in Shame and Guilt
5. Moral Emotions and Interpersonal Sensitivity: Empathy Enters the
Picture
6. Shamed into Anger?: The Special Link between Shame and
Interpersonal Hostility
7. Shame, Guilt, and Psychopathology
8. The Bottom Line: Moral Emotions and Moral Behavior
9. Shame and Guilt across the Lifespan: The Development of Moral
Emotions
10. Sex, Romance, and Conflict: Shame and Guilt in Intimate
Relationships
11. Implications for Therapists: Shame and Guilt on Both Sides of
the Couch
12. Looking Ahead: Implications for Parents, Teachers, and
Society
Appendix A. Tables of Findings from Studies of Shame and Guilt
Appendix B. Measures of Shame and Guilt
References
Index
June Price Tangney, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at George
Mason University. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology
from the University of California-Los Angeles, under the direction
of Dr. Seymour Feshbach, after working with Dr. Joseph Masling as
an undergraduate at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Dr. Tangney serves on the editorial boards of several professional
journals. Her research has been funded by the National Institute of
Child Health and Human Development and the John Templeton
Foundation.
Ronda L. Dearing, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Research
Institute on Addictions in Buffalo, New York. She became involved
in the study of shame and guilt during her graduate training in
clinical psychology at George Mason University, while working as a
research assistant with June Tangney. Prior to her training in
psychology, Dr. Dearing worked as a medical technologist. Her
doctoral dissertation focused on predictors of psychotherapy
help-seeking in therapists-in-training. More recent interests
include help-seeking in substance abuse, substance abuse treatment
approaches, and the influence of shame-proneness on substance
use.
Among the human emotions, shame and guilt have been relatively
neglected by psychologists and other behavioral scientists.
Moreover, work on these topics has been hampered by fuzzy
conceptualization, armchair theorizing, and inadequate reliance on
empirical research. In one fell swoop, Tangney and Dearing have
remedied this situation. Drawing upon a broad array of theory and
research in social, personality, developmental, and clinical
psychology (including the first author's 15-year program of
research), Shame and Guilt is an outstanding work of scholarship,
as meticulously researched as it is interesting and readable. It
will become an instant classic in the literature on emotion.--Mark
R. Leary, PhD, Wake Forest University
This important and readable book represents the culmination of
years of work by the world's foremost expert on shame and guilt. In
clear, straightforward prose, it brings the reader through the
tortured history of ideas on the topic, through the first author's
definitive research program and the accumulated findings of many
others, and provides a powerful understanding of how these
affective experiences shape human life. Shame and guilt are
superficially similar, but any reader of this book will quickly
grasp how one of them is the 'evil twin' of the other and why they
lead into such different directions. This is an indispensable book
for anyone wanting an up-to-date overview of the very different
natures of these influential emotions.--Roy F. Baumeister, PhD,
author of Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty and Meanings of
Life.
Shame and guilt are emotions that almost all experience, but upon
which few wish to dwell. Tangney and Dearing provide an engaging,
bold, and provocative analysis of differences between these
emotions, and the correlates of being prone to each of them. Their
analysis will be of interest and use to students, teachers, and
therapists, among others. The proposed link between shame-proneness
and aggression is especially intriguing.--C. Daniel Batson, PhD,
Department of Psychology, University of Kansas
This book provides a comprehensive yet comprehensible review of
work on shame and guilt that stems from the author's extensive
knowledge of the field. Because Tangney is a skilled scientist with
an interest in applications of research, she provides insight into
both the scientific process and the implications for therapy, moral
development in childhood, and interpersonal relationships. I
recommend the book for graduate students, scientists interested in
emotion and moral development, practitioners concerned with issues
of shame and guilt, and anyone who wants an authoritative overview
of current knowledge in this area.--Nancy Eisenberg, PhD,
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University
- Tangney and Dearing pull together previous scholarship to present
a cohesive, wide-ranging account of the two emotions and the ways
they influence human behavior. Their comprehensive, scholarly, and
insightful presentation will make this book a standard reference in
the field for years to come. --Choice, 11/6/2003
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