The Self-Conscious Emotions
Theory and Research
Edited by Jessica L. Tracy, Richard W. Robins, and June Price Tangney
Foreword by Joseph J. Campos
Request a free digital professor copy on VitalSource ?“What a great book! Self-conscious emotions, such as shame, guilt, and pride, play a pivotal role in social and self-regulation. The contributors to this book add to our understanding of these emotions at every level—from their neural basis, cognitive underpinnings, and development, to their societal functions and cross-cultural differences. This book is a 'must read' for researchers and students interested in personality, identity, emotion, moral development, relationships, and culture.”
—Carol S. Dweck, PhD, Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology, Stanford University
“Self-conscious emotions are at the center of all inquiries into human beings as moral animals. This fascinating volume assembles diverse perspectives on the topic, offering a number of new insights and penetrating analyses. It is the single most important resource for all scholars hoping to get a glimpse at this emerging area of research.”
—Shinobu Kitayama, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
Table of Contents
I. Theoretical Perspectives: Social, Cognitive, and Neural Mechanisms Underlying Self-Conscious Emotions
1. The Self in Self-Conscious Emotions: A Cognitive Appraisal Approach, Jessica L. Tracy and Richard W. Robins
2. What's Moral about the Self-Conscious Emotions?, June Price Tangney, Jeffrey Stuewig, and Debra J. Mashek
3. How the Self Became Involved in Affective Experience: Three Sources of Self-Reflective Emotions, Mark R. Leary
4. Neural Systems for Self-Conscious Emotions and Their Underlying Appraisals, Jennifer S. Beer
5. A Social Function for Self-Conscious Emotions: The Social Self Preservation Theory, Tara L. Gruenewald, Sally S. Dickerson, and Margaret E. Kemeny
II. Developmental Contexts and Processes
6. The Development of Self-Conscious Emotions: Cognitive Processes and Social Influences, Kristin Hansen Lagattuta and Ross A. Thompson
7. The Development of Pride and Moral Life, Daniel Hart and M. Kyle Matsuba
8. Self-Conscious Emotional Development, Michael Lewis
III. Cultural Influences
9. Shifting Meanings of Self-Conscious Emotions across Cultures: A Social-Functional Approach, Jennifer L. Goetz and Dacher Keltner
10. From Appeasement to Conformity: Evolutionary and Cultural Perspectives on Shame, Competition, and Cooperation, Daniel M. T. Fessler
11. A Cross-Cultural Examination of Lexical Studies of Self-Conscious Emotions, Robin S. Edelstein and Phillip R. Shaver
12. Cultural Models of Shame and Guilt, Ying Wong and Jeanne Tsai
13. Respect as a Positive Self-Conscious Emotion in European Americans and Chinese, Jin Li and Kurt W. Fischer
IV. Specific Emotions: Function and Conceptualization
14. Is Embarrassment a Blessing or a Curse?, Rowland S. Miller
15. The Nature of Pride, Jessica L. Tracy and Richard W. Robins
16. The Evolution of Shame as a Marker for Relationship Security: A Biopsychosocial Approach, Paul Gilbert
17. Humiliation Causes, Correlates, and Consequences, Jeff Elison and Susan Harter
18. Shame and Guilt as Morally Warranted Experiences, Tamara J. Ferguson, Daniel Brugman, Jennifer White and Heidi L. Eyre
V. Special Topics and Applications
19. Group-Conscious Emotions: The Implications of Others' Wrongdoings for Identity and Relationships, Brian Lickel, Toni Schmader, and Marija Spanovic
20. Shame and Guilt in Antisocial and Risky Behaviors, Jeffrey Stuewig and June Price Tangney
21. Wrestling with Nature: An Existential Perspective on the Body and Gender in Self-Conscious Emotions, Tomi-Ann Roberts and Jamie L. Goldenberg
22. Overvalued and Ashamed: Considering the Roles of Self-Esteem and Self-Conscious Emotions in Covert Narcissism, Jennifer K. Bosson and Jennifer L. Prewitt-Freilino
23. Runaway Nationalism: Alienation, Shame, and Anger, Thomas J. Scheff
VI. Assessment
24. Assessing Self-Conscious Emotions: A Review of Self-Report and Nonverbal Measures, Richard W. Robins, Eric E. Noftle, and Jessica L. Tracy
About the Editors
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, where he is Director of the Personality, Self, and Emotions Laboratory; Director of the California Families Project; and a member of the core faculty for the National Institute of Mental Health Training Program in Affective Science. Dr. Robins is Associate Editor of Personality and Social Psychology Review and past Associate Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology from the American Psychological Association and both the Theoretical Innovation Prize and the Diener Award for Outstanding Mid-Career Contributions to Personality Psychology from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. His research focuses on personality, emotion, the self, and ethnic-minority youth development.
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.
Contributors
Jennifer S. Beer, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CaliforniaJennifer K. Bosson, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
Daniel Brugman, PhD, Department of Developmental Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Sally S. Dickerson, PhD, Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California
Robin S. Edelstein, PhD, Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California
Jeff Elison, PhD, Department of Psychology, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah
Heidi L. Eyre, PhD, Department of Psychology, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, Alabama
Tamara J. Ferguson, PhD, Department of Psychology, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
Daniel M. T. Fessler, PhD, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles,
Los Angeles, California
Kurt W. Fischer, PhD, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Paul Gilbert, PhD, DClinPsych, Mental Health Research Unit, Kingsway Hospital, Derby, United Kingdom
Jennifer L. Goetz, BS, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
Jamie L. Goldenberg, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
Tara L. Gruenewald, PhD, Department of Medicine-Division of Geriatrics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Daniel Hart, EdD, Camden College of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey
Susan Harter, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
Dacher Keltner, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
Margaret E. Kemeny, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Kristin Hansen Lagattuta, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California
Mark R. Leary, PhD, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Michael Lewis, PhD, Institute for the Study of Child Development, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Jin Li, EdD, Department of Education, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Brian Lickel, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Debra J. Mashek, PhD, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California
M. Kyle Matsuba, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
Rowland S. Miller, PhD, Department of Psychology and Philosophy, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas
Erik E. Noftle, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California
Jennifer L. Prewitt-Freilino, MS, Department of Psychology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
Tomi-Ann Roberts, PhD, Department of Psychology, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Richard W. Robins, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California
Thomas J. Scheff, PhD, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
Toni Schmader, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Phillip R. Shaver, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California
Marija Spanovic, BA, Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Jeffrey Stuewig, PhD, Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
June Price Tangney, PhD, Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
Ross A. Thompson, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California
Jessica L. Tracy, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Jeanne Tsai, PhD, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Jennifer White, BS, Department of Psychology, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
Ying Wong, MA, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California