When guilt leads to other orientation and shame leads to egocentric self-focus: Effects of differential priming of negative affects on perspective taking

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 605-614

  Yang, Mu Li ^a   Yang, Chao Chin ^b   Chiou, Wen Bin ^c  

^a CHANG JUNG CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Guilt; Mood repair hypothesis; Perspective taking; Shame

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953443011     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2010.38.5.605     Document Type: Article

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