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Shame

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…

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Shame

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Triples307
Avg. degree1.98
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related to Further reading · 66
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
related to Other subtypes · 25
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
related to Stigma · 23
Shame → Bennett, David, Erving Goffman, For Goffman, HIV, HIV-related, HIV-stigma, In, Jessica, Management, Notes, Older, PTSD, Rather, Sales, Spoiled Identity, STD, STDs, Stigma, The
related to Research · 21
Shame → Body-Related Shame, Cataldo Lung Cancer Stigma, CLCSS, Emotional Reactions, Experience, GASP, Guilt, HIV, HIV Stigma Scale, Internalized Shame Scale, Others, Psychologists, Scale, Shame Proneness, Shame Scale, Some, SSS, Stigma Scale, Thoughts Scale, WEB-SG
related to Behavioural expression · 16
Shame → Avoiding, Body Tension, Children, Facial Tension, Fidgeting, Hiding, In, Nervous Positive Affect, Physiological, Silence, Stillness, The Shame Code, These, Thus, Uncertainty, Verbal Flow
related to Definition · 16
Shame → According, Behaviors, East Asian, Empirical, In, In Western, It, Moral, Neda Sedighimornani, Not, Our, Some, The, This, To, Whereas
related to Shame campaign · 15
Shame → Alfredo Lim, Communists, Former Senator Rene, He, Hester Prynne, In, Letter, Lim's, Manila, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet, Officials, On July, Philippines, Public, Saguisag
related to External links · 14
Shame → Brene Brown Listening, Disgust, Group PsychotherapyShame, Humanity, Humiliation, LawHumiliation, March, PsychotherapySocial, Sexual Guilt, ShameShame, Simply Wrong, TED Talk, Torture, USA Today Editorial/Opinion
has treatment · 13
Shame → An, Because, CBT, CFT, Compassion Focused Therapy, Different, Group-based CBT, Historically, Other, Paul Gilbert, Recent, There, Unfortunately
related to Collectivist and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Shame · 13
Shame → Analyses, Chinese, Confucian, Differences, East Asia, Even, In, In Japan, Japanese, Korean, So, Western, While

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Shameis aunpleasant self-conscious emotion associated with negative self-evaluation in relation to social norms and one’s personal moral standards0.90text
Shameis adiscrete0.90text
Shameis aself-punishing acknowledgment of something gone wrong0.90text
Shameis apainful feeling about oneself as a person0.90text
Shameis aheteronomous emotion0.90text
Shameis amuch more intense experience and one that is not functional0.90text
Shameis afeeling we have when violating an ethical principle0.90text
depressioninstance ofshame is relevant in several psychological disorders0.80text
phobia of social interactionsinstance ofshame is relevant in several psychological disorders0.80text
and even some eating disordersinstance ofshame is relevant in several psychological disorders0.80text
blame or contempt may be used as a defending strategy against the experience of shameinstance ofothers represents when it is applied interpersonally.Kaufman saw that mechanisms0.80text
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-contemptinstance ofothers represents when it is applied interpersonally.Kaufman saw that mechanisms0.80text

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