When things go wrong, who or what is to blame? Humans are moral animals. This is not to say that we always behave honorably or morally, only that our minds are deeply tethered to a view of the world ...

Many people confuse shame and guilt, and it is useful to know the difference between the two. The first reason is that shame often masks anger and vice versa. Some chronically angry and raging people ...

A new global study published in Nature Human Behaviour provides evidence that people tend to act more generously toward ...

One difference between guilt and shame, French philosopher Frédéric Gros points out in his book “A Philosophy of Shame: A Revolutionary Emotion,” lies in how we understand their opposites. The absence ...

Diet culture is everywhere, often putting people in a perpetual cycle of restricting what they eat to try to lose weight, then indulging after feeling deprived, followed by heaps of guilt and shame — ...