A couple of days ago, as we crossed 10th Street North at 12th Avenue (within the crosswalk), my dog and I were almost hit by a vehicle turning left. The truck came within an inch of us, and in ...

Like fish swimming in the water, we are swimming in sexual shame, to the point where most of the time we are utterly oblivious to it. No one is immune from sexual shame, not even medical and mental ...

Shame is one of the most difficult feelings to handle and talk about because it brings up something that the person would rather forget. However, breaking through shame in therapy is a liberating ...

Shame can lock us in prison for life. I had lots of shame for many years around being shy and awkward at school, which infected my confidence growing up. I’ve realized that to be without shame is to ...

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

I knew I was Black but tied no more significance to that fact than I would a freckle, a mole, or right and left-handedness. My “Black” was merely a circumstantial genetic effect. As a kid, it didn’t ...

Human emotions come in many shapes and forms. Some, like sadness and happiness, are rather easy to explain. Others, like guilt, pride, and shame, are a great deal more complex. They have in common ...

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

An implicit mental map of how negatively others will perceive them sets the level of shame people feel about a potential action Shame on you. These three simple words can have devastating effect on an ...