Shame and Guilt are Not Equally Moral Emotions Deterring Transgression and Antisocial Behavior  Common assumption: shame helps people avoid doing wrong , decreasing the likelihood of transgression  No evidence for an adaptive function of shame  In fact, undergrads' self-reported moral behaviors were: substantially positively correlated with guilt-proneness, but unrelated to proneness to shame June Tangney -- George Mason University
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