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What do we know of the psychology of shame? What do people tend to be ashamed of? Do you think shameful feelings are grounded in reality or are they purely subjective? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although shame is a subjective emotion, the psychology of shame has more to do with other people than with ourselves because shame stems from the fear of judgment. Most people tend to harbor shameful feelings about things that wouldn’t be deemed scandalous by others. That said, there are also some things that would be deemed shameful by society in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this article, we\u2019ll take a closer look at shame psychology in terms of its causes and consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Psychology of Shame: Causes and Consequences<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

According to psychiatrist James Gilligan, shame isn\u2019t a feeling, it\u2019s an absence <\/em>of feeling. <\/strong>Initially, shame might feel like pain, but long-term, it becomes more like numbness or deadness.\u00a0Shame psychology identifies some of the key causes of shame<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Causes of Shame: Vulnerabilities and Societal Expectations <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In modern times, the things people are most ashamed of tend to be personal secrets that aren\u2019t objectively very scandalous or that would seem unimportant to others. <\/strong>For example, Melissa\u2019s salary is $550,000 a year and she\u2019s ashamed that she makes so much, and Jim is ashamed that he smokes an ounce of marijuana every three weeks. When they both revealed these secrets at an honesty workshop, none of the other participants cared. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, there are some things that society generally labels as shameful. <\/strong>For men, this includes exercising white privilege, committing a professional faux pas like plagiarism, or losing their jobs and being unemployed. For women, this additionally includes sex scandals. (Sex scandals used to be shameful for men back in the 1800s and 1900s, but these days, people consider other transgressions worse.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cf For example, when the client list of Alexis Wright\u2019s one-woman brothel was released, it contained the names of sixty-eight men and one woman. Then men faced consequences\u2014for example, pastor James Andrew Ferreira was fired and his wife left him\u2014but didn\u2019t experience shaming. The woman, on the other hand, did\u2014even the men who had been involved in the scandal made jokes about her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consequences of Shame: Violence<\/strong> <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Most violence isn\u2019t motivated by revenge or self-defense\u2014it\u2019s motivated by shame. <\/strong>Violence is an effective way to gain instant self-esteem\u2014threatening someone with a gun tends to make them treat you with respect. This self-esteem and respect help to fill the void caused by shame. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The work of two scientists demonstrates the connection between shame and violence:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Case Study 1\u2014James Gilligan: Prison Violence<\/strong> <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In the 1970s, prisons and mental hospitals in Massachusetts were experiencing a period of violence that included frequent suicides, murders, and other dangerous activities like riots and fire-setting. The Department of Corrections was ordered to bring in investigative psychiatrists to sort things out and James Gilligan was invited to take charge of the project. He originally wasn\u2019t very enthusiastic\u2014he expected that the most violent people would be unredeemable psychopaths. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, that wasn\u2019t what he found at all. In fact, Gilligan discovered that all of the violent inmates had experienced severe shaming during their lives, <\/strong>such as being thrown out of windows, raped, or set on fire. This extreme shame drove them to shut down emotionally. This numbness was so painful that they tried hurting themselves or others to trigger feelings, whether physical or emotional. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being in prison only added to their shame\u2014officers and guards treated the inmates badly and humiliated them. <\/strong>For example, sometimes officers lied to prisoners about them having a visitor. Prisoners would get excited by this news because visitors were rare and then be disappointed when they found out it was just a joke. The officers thought this kind of behavior would ensure obedience, but it just made people more prone to violence. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once Gilligan realized what the real cause of the violence was, he tried to improve the situation. In the 1980s, he experimented with therapeutic communities. In these communities, everyone had to treat the prisoners with respect and give them a shame-free place to talk about themselves and what they wanted. <\/strong>After some time, some of the prison workers became jealous of these sessions, and Gilligan got them some psychiatric treatment too. This helped them behave more civilly to the prisoners, and violence decreased. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1991, Gilligan tried to additionally use education to deshame inmates and asked Harvard lecturers to teach free classes at prisons. When William Weld was elected as governor, however, he shut the program down because he thought that people who couldn\u2019t afford college would start committing crimes to get free education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few of Gilligan\u2019s therapeutic communities still exist today and are still effective at deshaming inmates and reducing violence. For example, Raquel, like the prisoners in Gilligan\u2019s original study, experienced shame as a child<\/strong>\u2014growing up, she was sexually abused. This made her hard on her own children and her son eventually accused her of child abuse<\/strong>. Eventually, she was charged with attempted murder because she threw a knife at her son. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The community\u2019s head understood that shame played a huge role in Raquel\u2019s case and convinced the prosecutors that Raquel was part of an \u201cabuse cycle.\u201d Raquel wasn\u2019t allowed to contact her children for five years, but her sentence was four months instead of twenty years. She was also offered a job at her halfway house, which further boosted her self-esteem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Case Study 2\u2014David Buss: Murderous Fantasies<\/strong> <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Evolutionary psychology professor David Buss also discovered that shame is a powerful motivator for violence during an experiment about people\u2019s murder fantasies in the early 2000s. Buss asked 5,000 people if they\u2019d ever thought about killing someone and the numbers blew him away\u201484% of men and 91% of women had experienced at least one vivid fantasy of murdering someone. <\/strong>For example, one man imagined hiring someone to tamper with his boss\u2019s brakes, and a boy visualized breaking a bully\u2019s legs and dripping acid on him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost all of the fantasy victims had shamed the fantasizers. <\/strong>For example, the person who imagined killing his boss had been humiliated by the boss and made to feel like a loser. The boy who fantasized about breaking legs and dripping acid had been laughed at by the bully and his friends after the bully dropped books on him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most people who fantasize about hurting people don\u2019t actually go out and do it, but Buss\u2019s work shows that shame and violence are linked and this affects everyone, regardless of their self-control levels. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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