Abstract

Abstract The scientific study of emotion, begun by Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, and William James in the last century, has been neglected for much of this one. Overshadowed by behavior and cognition, the formal study of internal emotional states, events that are central to the understanding of the human condition, is only recently receiving the attention of a growing number of experimental researchers and clinical authors. Within the entire spectrum of emotional states, perhaps the last to become a focus of observation of scientific scrutiny has been the “hidden” emotion of shame. A rapid expansion of knowledge about this emotion has occurred only within the last ten years, as contributions from a variety of disciplines are now actively attempting to understand more deeply the unique psychological and biological properties of shame.

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