The Self-Conscious Emotions Theory and

Timely and authoritative, this volume reviews the breadth of current knowledge on the self-conscious emotions and their role in psychological and social functioning. Leading investigators approach the subject from multiple levels of analysis, ranging from basic brain mechanisms to complex social processes. Chapters present compelling advances in research on the most fundamental self-conscious emotions: embarrassment, guilt, humiliation, pride, and shame. Addressed are neural and evolutionary mechanisms, developmental processes, cultural differences and similarities, and influences on a wide array of social behaviors and personality processes. A unique chapter on assessment describes and evaluates the full range of available measures.

Jessica L. Tracy, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. Her research and publications focus on the expression, psychological structure, and cognitive elicitors of self-conscious emotions, as well as their links to personality and self-esteem regulation. Dr. Tracy founded the annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology Pre-Conference on Emotion, and her work has been honored by the Wellcome Trust-New Scientist Essay Competition, as well as by dissertation awards from the New York Academy of Sciences and the American Psychological Association.

Richard W. Robins, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. His research and publications focus on personality, emotions, and the self. Dr. Robins is coeditor of the Handbook of Research Methods in Personality Psychology and the forthcoming Handbook of Personality, Third Edition, and he has served as associate editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Dr. Robins was awarded the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s Theoretical Innovation Prize.

June Price Tangney, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at George Mason University. She is coauthor of Shame and Guilt and coeditor of the Handbook of Self and Identity. She has served as associate or consulting editor for several journals, and is currently associate editor of American Psychologist. Her research interests include the development and implications of moral emotions. Currently, her work focuses on moral emotions among incarcerated offenders.

Theoretical Perspectives: Social, Cognitive, and Neural Mechanisms Underlying Self-Conscious Emotions
The Self in Self-Conscious Emotions: A Cognitive Appraisal Approach
What's Moral about the Self-Conscious Emotions?
How the Self Became Involved in Affective Experience: Three Sources of Self-Reflective Emotions
Neural Systems for Self-Conscious Emotions and Their Underlying Appraisals
A Social Function for Self-Conscious Emotions: The Social Self Preservation Theory
Developmental Contexts and Processes
The Development of Self-Conscious Emotions: Cognitive Processes and Social Influences
The Development of Pride and Moral Life
Self-Conscious Emotional Development
Cultural Influences
Shifting Meanings of Self-Conscious Emotions across Cultures: A Social-Functional Approach
From Appeasement to Conformity: Evolutionary and Cultural Perspectives on Shame, Competition, and Cooperation
A Cross-Cultural Examination of Lexical Studies of Self-Conscious Emotions
Cultural Models of Shame and Guilt
Respect as a Positive Self-Conscious Emotion in European Americans and Chinese
Specific Emotions: Function and Conceptualization
Is Embarrassment a Blessing or a Curse?
The Nature of Pride
The Evolution of Shame as a Marker for Relationship Security: A Biopsychosocial Approach
Humiliation Causes, Correlates, and Consequences
Shame and Guilt as Morally Warranted Experiences
Special Topics and Applications
Group-Conscious Emotions: The Implications of Others' Wrongdoings for Identity and Relationships
Shame and Guilt in Antisocial and Risky Behaviors
Wrestling with Nature: An Existential Perspective on the Body and Gender in Self-Conscious Emotions
Overvalued and Ashamed: Considering the Roles of Self-Esteem and Self-Conscious Emotions in Covert Narcissism
Runaway Nationalism: Alienation, Shame, and Anger
Assessment
Assessing Self-Conscious Emotions: A Review of Self-Report and Nonverbal Measures
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