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Shame is an unpleasant self-conscious emotion associated with negative self-evaluation in relation to social norms and one’s personal moral standards. It can generate feelings of pain, exposure, distrust, powerlessness, and worthlessness, which in turn may give rise to anger, denial, avoidance, reduced sensitivity to shame, and a tendency to externalize…
The analysis highlights Research, Standards, Cultures and Measurement as prominent areas in the source structure around Shame.
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The extracted context around Shame shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Shame → An Empirical-Phenomenological Investigation, Andrew, Ballantine Books, Beacon Press, Being-Ashamed, Body Shame, Boston, Brunner-Routledge, Carl, Conceptualisation, Context, Culture, Damian, Disguise, Existential, Exposure, Gilbert, Goldberg, Guilt, HCI Another extracted example is Shame → Addiction, Author, Extremely, False, Fat, Gershen Kaufman, Gilligan, Identity, In, Incest, Individuals, Internalization, Internalized, Involuntary, It, John Bradshaw, Later, Once, Psychiatrist James Gilligan, Silvan Tomkins. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
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TTTA extracted 307 structured relationships around Shame. Examples in this analysis include Shame → is a → unpleasant self-conscious emotion associated with negative self-evaluation in relation to social norms and one’s personal moral standards and Shame → is a → discrete. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shame | is a | unpleasant self-conscious emotion associated with negative self-evaluation in relation to social norms and one’s personal moral standards | 0.90 | text |
| Shame | is a | discrete | 0.90 | text |
| Shame | is a | self-punishing acknowledgment of something gone wrong | 0.90 | text |
| Shame | is a | painful feeling about oneself as a person | 0.90 | text |
| Shame | is a | heteronomous emotion | 0.90 | text |
| Shame | is a | much more intense experience and one that is not functional | 0.90 | text |
| Shame | is a | feeling we have when violating an ethical principle | 0.90 | text |
| depression | instance of | shame is relevant in several psychological disorders | 0.80 | text |
| phobia of social interactions | instance of | shame is relevant in several psychological disorders | 0.80 | text |
| and even some eating disorders | instance of | shame is relevant in several psychological disorders | 0.80 | text |
| blame or contempt may be used as a defending strategy against the experience of shame | instance of | others represents when it is applied interpersonally.Kaufman saw that mechanisms | 0.80 | text |
| that someone who has a pattern of applying them to himself may well attempt to defend against a shame experience by applying self-blame or self-contempt | instance of | others represents when it is applied interpersonally.Kaufman saw that mechanisms | 0.80 | text |
The concept neighborhoods around Shame bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Social, Guilt and Self. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
For Shame, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Shame with Subtypes of shame. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around Shame to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Research, Standards, Cultures & Measurement, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — Shame · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout