The approach and avoidance function of guilt and shame emotions: Comparing reactions to self-caused and other-caused wrongdoing

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 42-55

  Schmader, Toni ^a   Lickel, Brian ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Approach avoidance motivation; Group based emotion; Guilt; Shame

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747879285     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-006-9006-0     Document Type: Review

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