What do the TOSCA guilt and shame scales really measure: Affect or action?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 445-450

  Giner Sorolla, Roger ^a   Piazza, Jared ^a   Espinosa, Pablo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Guilt; Prejudice; Reparations; Self conscious emotion; Shame; Test of Self Conscious Affect (TOSCA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959331082     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.04.010     Document Type: Article

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