Introduction The neuroanatomical correlates of basic emotions have been largely investigated using functional MRI (fMRI), while only a few studies have focussed on social emotions. Guilt is one of the most relevant social emotions, which is involved in many everyday life situations. Recently, deontological guilt, which derives from violating one’s own interior moral values, has been identified ...

UNLABELLED AIM : Although various aspects of guilt are frequent problems of patients suffering from PTSD, they have been included into the diagnostic criteria for PTSD just in the present version DSM-5. Kubany proposed a cognitive conceptualization of guilt in PTSD followed by development of the Trauma Related Guilt Inventory (TRGI). The aim of the paper is to present psychometric properties of...

The Use of Guilt as a Defense Against Anxiety Richard A. Gardner, M.D. The purpose of this paper is to (1) discuss the utilization of guilt as a defense mechanism in handling some of the anxieties of human existence, and (2) to describe the employment of this type of guilt reaction in certain psychoanalytic, social and religious phenomena. The term, existential, as it will be used in this paper...

One important motivation for people behaving prosocially is that they want to avoid negative and obtain positive emotions. In the prosocial behavior literature however, the motivations to avoid negative emotions (e.g., guilt) and to approach positive emotions (e.g., warm glow) are rarely separated, and sometimes even aggregated into a single mood-management construct. The aim of this study was ...

Rooted in people's preoccupation with how they are perceived and evaluated, shame and guilt are self-conscious emotions that play adaptive roles in social behavior, but can also contribute to psychopathology when dysregulated. Shame and guilt-proneness develop during childhood and adolescence, and are influenced by genetic and environmental factors that are little known to date. This study inve...

Is it possible to identify behavior motivated by guilt? Although there are empirical findings on inter-household transfers consistent with the hypothesis that people care about others’ state of well-being (altruism), the psychological literature on guilt suggests that transfers may also reflect compensation by one agent to another for prior harmful acts, given the harmed agent’s current well-be...

CONTEXT Proneness to overgeneralization of self-blame is a core part of cognitive vulnerability to major depressive disorder (MDD) and remains dormant after remission of symptoms. Current neuroanatomical models of MDD, however, assume general increases of negative emotions and are unable to explain biases toward emotions entailing self-blame (eg, guilt) relative to those associated with blaming...

• An investigation of the effect of embodied guilt on intergroup relations. • Holding a prototypical guilt pose enhances feelings of personal & collective guilt. • Embodied guilt leads to greater reparative intentions for personal/ingroup misdeeds. • Expressed guilt mediates the relation between posture and reparative intentions. a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o Research demonstrates that ...