Shame, Desire And Marginality

Identity and Marginality

Studying identities, the processes of their formation and the ways in which they are both shaped by and help to shape wider social and cultural contexts is a key preoccupation in many disciplines of the arts, humanities and social sciences. These fields of academic inquiry are principally concerned with human beings, their thoughts and beliefs, the ways in which they interact with one another a...

Desire and Desire Regulation

A good deal of people’s waking time is, more or less directly, spent thinking about and dealing with desire. There is no question that desires are often benign, functional, and evolutionary adaptive for the individual. However, there are cases where desire stands in conflict with important (selfregulatory) goals or (moral) values. Prime examples include the exsmoker who, upon seeing other peopl...

On shame, shame-depression, and other depressions.

Running head: MORAL SHAME AND IMAGE SHAME 1 Two faces of group-based shame: Moral Shame and Image Shame differentially predict positive and negative orientations to ingroup wrongdoing

This paper proposes distinctions between guilt and two forms of shame: guilt arises from a violated norm and is characterised by a focus on specific behaviour; shame can be characterised by a threatened social image (Image Shame) or a threatened moral essence (Moral Shame). Applying this analysis to group-based emotions, three correlational studies are reported, set in the context of atrocities...

Weak differential marginality and the Shapley value

The principle of differential marginality for cooperative games states that the differential of two players’ payoffs does not change when the differential of these players’ productivities does not change. Together with two standard properties, efficiency and the null player property, differential marginality characterizes the Shapley value. For games that contain more than two players, we show ...