@article{ref1,
title="Shame, guilt, and facial emotion processing: initial evidence for a positive relationship between guilt-proneness and facial emotion recognition ability",
journal="Cognition and emotion",
year="2015",
author="Treeby, Matt S. and Prado, Catherine and Rice, Simon M. and Crowe, Simon F.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Shame and guilt are closely related self-conscious emotions of negative affect that give rise to divergent self-regulatory and motivational behaviours. While guilt-proneness has demonstrated positive relationships with self-report measures of empathy and adaptive interpersonal functioning, shame-proneness tends to be unrelated or inversely related to empathy and is associated with interpersonal difficulties. At present, no research has examined relationships between shame and guilt-proneness with facial emotion recognition ability. Participants (N = 363) completed measures of shame and guilt-proneness along with a facial emotion recognition task which assessed the ability to identify displays of anger, sadness, happiness, fear, disgust, and shame. Guilt-proneness was consistently positively associated with facial emotion recognition ability. In contrast, shame-proneness was unrelated to capacity for facial emotion recognition. <br><br>FINDINGS provide support for theory arguing that guilt and empathy operate synergistically and may also help explain the inverse relationship between guilt-proneness and propensity for aggressive behaviour.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0269-9931",
doi="10.1080/02699931.2015.1072497",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2015.1072497"
}