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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…
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| 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 |
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