Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Ecological Studies (CESSES 2018)

The Research Progress and Trend of Guilt

Authors
Gengdan Hu, Dan Wang
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Gengdan Hu
Available Online November 2018.
DOI
10.2991/cesses-18.2018.73How to use a DOI?
Keywords
guilt; shame; compensation; neural mechanism; experimental paradigm
Abstract

Guilt, as one kind of negative emotional experience which is produced after individual violates moral criterion or hurts others, plays a crucial role in interpersonal communication and social moral criterion. Recent years, with the development of functional neural imaging, the research of guilt has been become hot issue in academic circles. On the basis of summaries of previous definitions and classifications of guilt, this essay analyzes similarities and differences of guilt and shame elaborately and raises reasonable explanations which discuss characters, merit rating and ranges of guilt research paradigms. It elaborates main current situation and problems of neural mechanisms research of guilt roundly and makes four expectations of guilt research trends.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Ecological Studies (CESSES 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
November 2018
ISBN
10.2991/cesses-18.2018.73
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/cesses-18.2018.73How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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