Chapter 11. Shame, guilt, embarrassment and humiliation

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Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Paul A. Wilson
[Human Cognitive Processing 80] 2026
► pp. 251–277

Chapter 11
Shame, guilt, embarrassment and humiliation

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Article outline

11.1Introduction
- 11.1.1Shame
- 11.1.2Embarrassment
- 11.1.3Guilt
- 11.1.4Humiliation
- 11.1.5Inter-cluster relationships between the British English and Polish shame/guilt/embarrassment/humiliation cluster concepts
  - 11.1.5.1Shame and embarrassment
  - 11.1.5.2Shame and guilt
  - 11.1.5.3Shame and humiliation
11.2Hypotheses
- 11.2.1The approach versus withdrawal/power orientation hypothesis
- 11.2.2The internalised standards-orientation hypothesis
- 11.2.3The interpersonal relationships/social-orientation hypothesis
- 11.2.4Religion-orientation hypothesis
11.3Results
- 11.3.1Online emotions sorting results
  - 11.3.1.1Shame versus wstyd co-occurrences
  - 11.3.1.2Guilt co-occurrences
  - 11.3.1.3Embarrassment
  - 11.3.1.4Humiliation
- 11.3.2GRID
  - 11.3.2.1Participants
  - 11.3.2.2Violated laws or socially accepted norms
  - 11.3.2.3Outward action/focus versus withdrawal/inward focus
  - 11.3.2.4Low power versus high power
  - 11.3.2.5Correlations between shame and guilt
  - 11.3.2.6Summary of the GRID results
11.4Corpus data
11.5General conclusions
- 11.5.1Shame and guilt
- 11.5.2Cohesiveness of the shame/guilt/embarrassment/humiliation cluster concept
Notes