ReviewEvolutionary human sciences2022
The evolution of shame and its display.
Review in Evolutionary human sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- The expression of self-conscious emotions and their motivational and communicative function in early development.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026Review
- A multi-level framework for the functions of emotions and their expressions.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026Review
- Behavioural expression of ictal embarrassment: a stereo-EEG case report.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Acceptance and commitment therapy for moral injury: conceptualizing and intervening on moral injury through the lens of contextual behavioral science.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Survival, Attachment, and Healing: An Evolutionary Lens on Interventions for Trauma-Related Dissociation.Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Review
- From Envy to Radicalization.Evolutionary psychological science · 2024Article
- Introduction to the special collection: The expression of the emotions in man and animals.Evolutionary human sciences · 2022Article
- The Shame System Operates With High Precision.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
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Abstract
The shame system appears to be natural selection's solution to the adaptive problem of information-triggered reputational damage. Over evolutionary time, this problem would have led to a coordinated set of adaptations - the shame system - designed to minimise the spread of negative information about the self and the likelihood and costs of being socially devalued by others. This
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