PSY 348 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Ingroups And Outgroups, Eval, Social Emotions
30 Jan 2018
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Approach and avoidance function of guilt and shame emotions comparing reactions to self-caused and other-caused wrongdoing | schmader and lickel (2006) Study examines degree to which shame and guilt are predictive of avoidance & approach motives (self-caused & other-caused wrongdoings) Shame & guilt highly correlated for self-caused. Other caused shame predicted avoidance, guilt predicted approach tendencies. Shame and guilt = social emotion; thought to regulate behavior in regard to moral standards. Traditional thought: approach motivation invlv efforrts to seek out pos affect, avoidance invlve efforts to escape negative affect. Current research says: certain neg emotions (fear, sadness, disgust) elicit avoidance tendencies but anger seems to be assoc w/ approach tendencies. Shame and guilt are engative emotions: might differentially predct avoidance and approach. Guilt thought to be assoc w/ approach resp meant to repair harm caused by guilt- eliciting event. Shame thought to be linked to avoidance aimed at insulated self from neg eval; desire to hide/disappear.
