Not So Ugly After All: When Shame Acts as a Commitment Device

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 933-943

  de Hooge, Ilona E ^a   Breugelmans, Seger M ^b   Zeelenberg, Marcel ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

moral emotions; prosocial behavior; shame; social dilemmas; social value orientation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORALITY; MOTIVATION; SHAME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MORALS; MOTIVATION; SHAME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 54949097312     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0011991     Document Type: Article

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