... the development of shame, social isolation, no treatment or under-treatment of treatable psychiatric illnesses, and health disparities, as well as discrimination. This chapter contributes definitions of stigma, a brief review of the neurobiology and sociocultural factors underlying stigma, types of stigma...

... their experiences, often over decades. The stigma of being a victim, the shame about not stopping the offence or making a disclosure sooner, the anxiety about how family, colleagues and partners will view you, all act as inhibitors to making disclosures; these continue even after disclosure is made. The purpose...

...An introduction to the importance of shame in Africa through an anecdote about purchasing a car. embarrassment guilt Martin Granel Nicolas Sedgwick Eve neocolonialism Sedgwick Eve K and Adam Frank Tomkins Silvan colonialism Diabate Naminata humiliation Africa Shame Negotiations La honte...

...A look at a variety of texts by Calixthe Beyala that continue the treatment of the feminine in African literature in order to consider the phenomenon of “excess(ive) shame” and its risks and challenges. The consideration continues with a look at multiple texts by Soni Labou Tansi, as well...

... as the role that such encounters might play in the naturalization of their subordination. passion power pleasure bashfulness shame authority subordination social change As we saw in Chapter 2 , contemporaries who occupied positions of authority knew that subordinate–superior interactions facilitated...

... Gordon compelled speech Japanese internment Lazare Aaron Turing Alan judicial authority sentencing factor expression of remorse as Australia apology in Japan apology in shame sanctions acknowledgment of crime apology and rehabilitation apology and attorney misconduct apology and Civil Rights...

...The Introduction sets out the main aims and objectives of the study and enters into a nuanced discussion of the methodology of comparison. It deals with the issues of intelligibility and incommensurability, showing how they can be overcome by taking shame-related conceptual clusters from each case...

...This chapter lays out conceptual maps of shame-related ideas in Aristotle and Xunzi. It illustrates how these ideas were conceived by each philosopher and the contexts in which they were employed. The chapter is therefore philological in nature, paying close attention to how particular terms...

...This chapter discusses the implications of shame-related ideas for social solidarity and for the integration of the individual into society. It further seeks to explain the relative lack of concern for women in Aristotle’s and Xunzi’s discussion. In both bodies of texts, we find the individual...

... they believed to be Confucianism, thus failing to nurture their national dignity through genuine, original efforts to be creative. Ninh drew on Rabindranath Tagore and other foreign thinkers to shame his fellow Vietnamese and to harness this shame for the productive purpose of creating a national identity from...

... and wife as they watch from the walls. The book is also notable for its closing scene, which depicts Andromache learning of his death from the city walls. This chapter addresses the themes of the characterization of Hector and Achilles; heroism, shame, and pity; the Homeric body in death; lament...

... within the chapter, most prominently, through the sense of religious guilt and shame which is associated with such illegitimate unions. Davidson R M Eskenazi T C Hugenberger G P Instone–Brewer D Lipiński E Guenther A Westbrook R Wunsch C Japhet S Macintosh A A Roth M T Wolff H W Bautch R J...

...This chapter talks about shame and guilt as emotions directly involved in a moral or aesthetic appraisal of the self. It discusses these emotions, which all flow from the recognition that one has strayed. shame Tangney J P guilt feeling of responsibility dramaturgy Goffman Erving guilt...

... a more isolated and detached life and engage in fewer leisure and social activities than their non-recipient peers. The stigma, shame, and despair associated with Dibao receipt and the poor outlook for income and improved social class may lead recipients to be unhappy and have low levels of satisfaction...

... are responsible, involving matters of practical utility or personal honor. It considers the relation between “regret” and “shame”, on the one hand, and between “regret” and “remorse” on the other. The pre-Christian Romans, it turns out, did not commonly think or speak in terms of “remorse” as a distinct emotion...

... Astrophil and Stella, which highlights the writer being part of the generation of shame. By recognizing the inherent shamefulness and triviality of their poetic endeavors, these poets foregrounded how the shameful and trivial may be understood not as hindrances to thought but as enablers...

...This chapter is organized into two largely independent parts. The first part offers general observations on the nature of shame, contrasting it with some neighbouring emotions, underlining its positive and negative aspects, and illustrating observations with some examples, including one from...

... ethical theory rests on this virtue. This chapter contains an account of love, and it explains guilt and shame in terms of that account of love. It also considers the remedies for guilt and shame, including forgiveness, satisfaction or penance, and the remaining stain on the soul. Aquinas Thomas ethics...

... that is accompanied by moral emotions such as regret, remorse, and shame. Repentant wrongdoers are sometimes described as undergoing a change of identity that frees them from their guilt. At other times, repentance and other forms of atonement are described as changing the meaning of the past, whereby an act once...

... others to forgive or to reconcile with her. This account helps explain the commonly held but rarely defended view that victims have a prerogative to forgive. The idea of such a prerogative suggests that other people's relations with the wrongdoer and the wrongdoer's feelings of guilt, shame, or self...