Shame and Guilt

292 Pages·2002·44.972 MB·English

by  June Price Tangney, Ronda L. Dearing

A ND
J u ne Price T a n g n ey
R o n da L D e a r i ng

SHAME AND GUILT
E M O T I O NS A ND SOCIAL B E H A V I OR
Series Editor: Peter Salovey, Yale University
Shame and Guilt
June Price Tangney and Ronda L. Dearing
Ostracism: The Power of Silence
Kipling D. Williams
Emotions: Current Issues and Future Directions
Tracy J. Mayne and George A. Bonanno, Editors
Mood and Temperament
David Watson
Expressing Emotion: Myths, Realities, and Therapeutic Strategies
Eileen Kennedy-Moore and Jeanne C. Watson
Embarrassment: Poise and Peril in Everyday Life
Rowland S. Miller
Social Anxiety
Mark R. Leary and Robin M. Kowalski
Breaking Hearts: The Two Sides of Unrequited Love
Roy E Baumeister and Sara R. Wotman
Jealousy: Theory, Research, and Clinical Strategies
Gregory L. White and Paul E. Mullen
S H A ME A ND G U I LT
June Price Tangney
R o n da l. Dearing
Series Editor's Note hy Peter Salovey
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Tangney, June Price.
Shame and guilt / June Price Tangney and Ronda L. Dearing.
p. cm. — (Emotions and social behavior)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-57230-715-3 (hard) ISBN 1-57230-987-3 (paper)
1. Shame. 2. Guilt. I. Dearing, Ronda L. II. Title. III. Series.
BF575.S45 T36 2002
152.^)—dc21 2001050143
To my intellectual "Dads,"
Joseph Masling and Seymour Feshbach
—J- P- T.
To my family,
for their ongoing encouragement and support
—R. L. D.

A B O UT T HE A U T H O RS
June Price Tangney, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at George Mason
University. As an undergraduate, she worked with Dr. Joseph Masling at
SUNY, Buffalo, and completed her doctorate in clinical psychology from
the University of California-Los Angeles under the direction of Dr.
Seymour Feshbach. Coeditor, with Kurt W. Fischer, of Self-Conscious
Emotions: The Psychology of Shame, Guilt, Embarrassment, and Pride, she
is currently Associate Editor for Self and Identity, and Consulting Editor
for Joumal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social
Psychology Bulletin, Psychological Assessment, and Journal of Personality.
Her research has been funded by the National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development and the John Templeton Foundation.
Ronda L. Dearing, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Research
Institute on Addictions in Buffalo, New York. She became involved in
the study of shame and guilt during her graduate training in clinical
psychology at George Mason University, while working as a research
assistant with June Tangney. Prior to her training in psychology, she
worked as a medical technologist. Her doctoral dissertation focused on
predictors of psychotherapy help seeking in therapists-in-training. More
recent interests include help seeking in substance abuse, substance
abuse treatment approaches, and the influence of shame-proneness on
substance use.
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