In the field of emotion experimental psychology has as yet offered us but little, for only the simplest emotions have proved available for laboratory investigation, and the results of plethysmographic experiments have thus far not been commensurate with the amount of labor bestowed upon them and are lacking in definiteness. In the present study, while introspection -has, of course, been the final test, the material has been drawn from anthropology, animal psychology, and the study of children and defectives. Literature and biography have also furnished illustrative material. I have found but one monograph on the subject, that of Hohenemser, which is written entirely from the introspective point of view, and his four possible types of shame are more strongly suggestive of logical than psychological possibilities and apply only to a highly developed self-consciousness. Most psychologists seems to have overlooked the existence of shame as a separate emotion, or, at most, devoted a line or two to it in connection with allied mixed emotions. Ribot places modesty, shame, and shyness in a group of emotions which he characterizes as based on an association of intellectual states, which is, in most cases, an association by contrast, and presupposes a fusion, in varying proportions, of agreeable and disagreeable states. He further adds that the emotion, as a whole, differs from the sum of its constituent elements, which analysis can describe and isolate. Bain resolves shame into a dread of being condemned or ill-thought of by ( Emotions and Will, p. 2II.) James finds the origin of the emotional states of modesty, shame, and shyness in the application to ourselves of a judgment previously formed upon Baldwin defines shame as a lowered self esteem, felt with reference to something positive pertaining to self and open to the knowledge or opinion of others. The motives most closely allied to shame and frequently confused with it are shyness, bashfulness, embarrassment, mortification, humiliation, coyness, and modesty; indeed the