Guilt and shame are similar but also dissimilar. Guilt arises when we think that we have done damage to something or someone. Shame arises when we believe that we are damaged in some way (for example, ...
The greatest obstacles to healing and growth following intimate betrayal—abuse, infidelity, or deceit—are also the cruelest because they seem so unfair. Guilt is a primary example. In hidden and overt ...
Do you have a deep, dark secret? Edgar Allan Poe is popularly known for writing early-American horror stories. But for me, he is a social scientist who used fiction instead of theory and statistics to ...
In 2016 Merck launched an advertising campaign for its HPV vaccine that aroused a storm of protest and headlines. The Washington Post published an article entitled “Do the new Merck HPV ads guilt-trip ...
How can one estimate the severity of a civilization’s addiction to pathological sentiments? Surely one measure is the extent to which the civilization attacks, repudiates, or otherwise undermines its ...
One difference between guilt and shame, French philosopher Frédéric Gros points out in his book “A Philosophy of Shame: A Revolutionary Emotion,” lies in how we understand their opposites. The absence ...
How the two moral worlds shaped Western ideas of virtue, freedom, and human responsibility. Credit: GreekReporter Archive The ...
Prince Harry and Meagan Markle, we’re told, are wrestling with guilt over Kate Middleton’s cancer diagnosis. Germany suffers from “Guilt Politics.” Guilt. For many of us, it is our strongest emotion, ...
One thing that has become increasingly obvious is that every Republican accusation is an admission of guilt. For example, the GOP obsession over Hunter Biden — an unelected private citizen — was an ...
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