New brain research reveals how guilt and shame shape moral behavior, showing why guilt promotes repair while shame often ...

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Morand suggests, “Leaving that ‘last bite’ could result from feeling restraint or trying to maintain control subconsciously ...

In Train Dreams, the Australian actor plays a man unlike most screen protagonists. “The film shows us how majestic, powerful ...

Guilt and shame arise from different cognitive triggers and rely on distinct neural systems to guide compensatory behavior.

Guilt is a universal emotion, and while women often tend to allow guilt to affect their choices more than men, it can derail anyone's life. Luckily, there are ways for us to balance healthy sense of ...

The feeling of guilt can frustrate all your attempts at becoming a better leader. It can also lead to being controlled by negativity. Nevertheless, as strange as it seems, a certain amount of guilt ...

What parent hasn’t been there? It’s been a long day, you still have dinner to make, maybe lunches for tomorrow, too, and you just don’t have the energy to wrangle your kids into a new art project or ...

Guilt, like worry, is a useless emotion—useless because we don’t need to feel bad about ourselves to take corrective actions. Guilt is a useless emotion for three basic reasons: You can't change the ...

Motherhood means a daily experience of guilt and anxiety about our kids, especially for working moms in America. It is so universal that we don’t question it: being a mom means feeling guilty all the ...