Evolution and Natural History
Boehm, Christopher. Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior. Harvard University Press, 2009.
---. Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame. Soft Skull Press, 2012.
Dunbar, Robin, and Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar. Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language. Harvard University Press, 1998.
Gilbert, Paul. “Evolution, Social Roles, and the Differences in Shame and Guilt.” Social Research: An International Quarterly, vol. 70, no. 4, 2003, pp. 1205–30.
Sznycer, D. (2010). Cognitive adaptations for calibrating welfare tradeoff motivations, with
special reference to the emotion of shame (Doctoral dissertation). University of
California, Santa Barbara.
Sznycer, D. (2019). Forms and Functions of the Self-Conscious Emotions. Trends in Cognitive
Sciences, 23(2), 143–157.
Sznycer, D., Takemura, K., Delton, A. W., Sato, K., Robertson, T., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J.
(2012). Cross-cultural differences and similarities in proneness to shame: An adaptationist and ecological approach. Evolutionary Psychology, 10, 352–370.
Sznycer, D., Al-Shawaf, L., Bereby-Meyer, Y., Curry, O. S., De Smet, D., Ermer, E., … Seal, M.
F. L. (2017). Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(8), 1874–1879.
Sznycer, D., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2017). Adaptationism carves emotions at their
functional joints. Psychological Inquiry, 28(1), 56–62.
Sznycer, D., Tooby, J., Cosmides, L., Porat, R., Shalvi, S., & Halperin, E. (2016). Shame closely
tracks the threat of devaluation by others, even across cultures. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, 113(10), 2625–2630.
Sznycer, D., Xygalatas, D., Agey, E., Alami, S., An, X.-F., Ananyeva, K. I., … Tooby, J. (2018).
Cross-cultural invariances in the architecture of shame. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, 115(39), 9702–9707.
Sznycer, D., Xygalatas, D., Alami, S., An, X.-F., Ananyeva, K. I., Fukushima, S., … Tooby, J.
Stiner, M. .. “Carnivory, Coevolution, and the Geographic Spread of the Genus Homo. Journal of Archaeological Research, 10(1), 1-64. Https://Doi.Org/10.1023/A:1014588307174.” 2002.
Popular Psychology
Bradshaw, John. Healing the shame that binds you: Recovery classics edition. Health Communications, Inc., 2005.
Brown, Brené. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead. Penguin, 2015.
---. I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame. Gotham New York, 2007.
“The Psychology of Humiliation.” Psychology Today, http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hide-and-seek/201408/the-psychology-humiliation. Accessed 21 Dec. 2018.
Academic Psychology
Haidt, Jonathan. “The Moral Emotions.” Handbook of Affective Sciences, vol. 11, no. 2003, 2003, pp. 852–70.
Harré, Rom, and W. Gerrod Parrott. The Emotions: Social, Cultural and Biological Dimensions. Sage, 1996.
Scheff, Thomas. “The Ubiquity of Hidden Shame in Modernity.” Cultural Sociology, vol. 8, no. 2, 2014, pp. 129–41.
Scheff, Thomas J. “Shame in Self and Society.” Symbolic Interaction, vol. 26, no. 2, 2003, pp. 239–62.
Tracy, Jessica L., et al. The Self-Conscious Emotions: Theory and Research. Guilford Press, 2007.
Shame and Gender
Dare, Howard. Why Women Bully, Mean Girls and Relational Aggression - MGTOW. YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMRosOipsvM. Accessed 21 Dec. 2018.
Ferguson, Tamara J., and Susan L. Crowley. “Gender Differences in the Organization of Guilt and Shame.” Sex Roles, vol. 37, no. 1–2, 1997, pp. 19–44.
Hinds, Andy. “‘Messages of Shame Are Organized Around Gender.’” The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2013, https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/04/messages-of-shame-are-organized-around-gender/275322/.
“In Your Experience Are Women or Men More Likely to Slut Shame?” Reddit, https://www.reddit.com/r/AskWomen/comments/82nqcu/in_your_experience_are_women_or_men_more_likely/. Accessed 20 Dec. 2018.
Moms Fight Back against “Mommy Shaming.” https://www.wtnh.com/on-air/connecticut-families/moms-fight-back-against-mommy-shaming-/1619103242. Accessed 3 Dec. 2018.
Nancy Pelosi Questions Trump’s “Manhood” After White House Meeting | Newsmax.Com. https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/nancy-pelosi-manhood-democrats-border-wall/2018/12/11/id/894071/. Accessed 12 Dec. 2018.
Video Recordings of Gang Rape on Rise in India | Take Back The Tech! Map It. End It. https://www.takebackthetech.net/mapit/reports/view/460. Accessed 11 Dec. 2018.
Shame and Racial Issues
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me. Text publishing, 2015.
---. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy. One World/Ballantine, 2017.
How Can I Cure My White Guilt? - The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/style/white-guilt-privilege.html. Accessed 6 Jan. 2019.
Lebron, Christopher J. The Color of Our Shame: Race and Justice in Our Time. Oxford University Press, 2013.
O’Neill, Brendan. “White Shame Is the New White Pride.” Brendan O’Neill, 7 Apr. 2017, https://medium.com/@burntoakboy/white-shame-is-the-new-white-pride-ae7ef6de1c72.
Opinion | None of Us Deserve Citizenship - The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/opinion/sunday/immigration-border-policy-citizenship.html?em_pos=large&emc=edit_ty_20181221&nl=opinion-today&nlid=89372191edit_ty_20181221&ref=headline&te=1. Accessed 22 Dec. 2018.
Steele, Shelby. “Conservatism as Counterculture.” National Review.
---. White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era. Harper Collins, 2009.
Shame on Campus
Campbell, Bradley, and Jason Manning. The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars. Springer, 2018.
Friedersdorf, Conor. “How Campus Activists Are Weaponizing ‘Safe Space.’” The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2015, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/how-campus-activists-are-weaponizing-the-safe-space/415080/.
Hume, Mick. Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech? HarperCollins UK, 2015.
Kipnis, Laura. Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus. Harper Collins, 2017.
Lukianoff, Greg, and Jonathan Haidt. “The Coddling of the American Mind.” The Atlantic, vol. 316, no. 2, 2015, pp. 42–52.
---. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure. Penguin Press, 2018
Mastrangelo, Alana. “American University Students and Staff Call for Minority-Only ‘Spaces’ on Campus to Promote Inclusion.” Breitbart, 11 Dec. 2018, https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/12/11/american-university-students-and-staff-call-for-minority-only-spaces-on-campus-to-promote-inclusion/.
---. “Georgetown University Plans Action Against ‘Micoaggressors.’” Breitbart, 2 Jan. 2019, https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/01/02/georgetown-university-plans-action-against-micoaggressors/.
“Professor’s Door Vandalized at Sarah Lawrence College after He Criticizes Ideological Bias.” National Review, 8 Nov. 2018, https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/professors-door-vandalized-at-sarah-lawrence-college-after-he-criticizes-ideological-bias/.
“Shame List: The Absolute Worst Campuses for LGBTQ Youth.” Campus Pride, https://www.campuspride.org/shamelist/. Accessed 1 Dec. 2018.
Soave|Nov. 2, Robby, and 2018 4:25 Pm. “Sarah Lawrence Professor’s Office Door Vandalized After He Criticized Leftist Bias - Hit & Run.” Reason.Com, 2 Nov. 2018, https://reason.com/blog/2018/11/02/sarah-lawrence-professor-samuel-abrams.
Sullivan, Andrew. “Andrew Sullivan: We All Live on Campus Now.” Intelligencer, 9 Feb. 2018, http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/02/we-all-live-on-campus-now.html.
Tangney, June Price, and Ronda L. Dearing. Shame and Guilt. Guilford Press, 2003.
The Destructiveness of Call-Out Culture on Campus - The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/call-out-culture-is-stressing-out-college-students/524679/. Accessed 6 Jan. 2019.
Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces, and Callout Culture: What’s Happening on College Campuses, and Can It Be Changed? - FreedomFest. https://www.freedomfest.com/trigger-warnings-safe-spaces-callout-culture-whats-happening-college-campuses-can-changed/. Accessed 20 Dec. 2018.
Vianden, Jörg. “In All Honesty, You Don’t Learn Much”: White College Men’s Perceptions of Diversity Courses and Instructors. 2018.
Walters, Suzanna Danuta. “Academe’s Poisonous Call-Out Culture.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 2017. The Chronicle of Higher Education, https://www.chronicle.com/article/Academe-s-Poisonous-Call-Out/240016.
Shame and the Workplace
Creed, WE Douglas, et al. “Swimming in a Sea of Shame: Incorporating Emotion into Explanations of Institutional Reproduction and Change.” Academy of Management Review, vol. 39, no. 3, 2014, pp. 275–301
Hammonds, Keith H. “Why We Hate HR.” Fast Company, vol. 97, no. 8, 2005, pp. 40–47.
“Hey HR Lady! In Case You Are Living in Denial, Everyone Hates You.” Fistful of Talent, 29 Mar. 2011, http://fistfuloftalent.com/2011/03/hey-hr-lady-in-case-you-are-living-in-denial-everyone-hates-you.html.
“HR Is Not Your Friend.” Scribd, https://www.scribd.com/article/371713001/Hr-Is-Not-Your-Friend. Accessed 29 Jan. 2019.
Kipnis, Laura. “A Man Lost His Job to a Rape Joke. Are You Cheering? | Laura Kipnis.” The Guardian, 22 Dec. 2018. www.theguardian.com, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/22/rape-joke-metoo-movement-career-repercussions.
“#MeToo Complaints Swamp Human Resources Departments.” NPR.Org, https://www.npr.org/2018/06/04/615783454/-metoo-complaints-swamp-human-resource-departments. Accessed 23 Dec. 2018.
“#MeToo One Year Later: Has Your Workplace Culture Changed?” Black Enterprise, 1 Dec. 2018, https://www.blackenterprise.com/me-too-one-year-later-5-things-you-need-to-know/.
Ozkazanc‐Pan, Banu. “On Agency and Empowerment in A# MeToo World.” Gender, Work & Organization.
Prassl, Jeremias. Humans as a Service: The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy. Oxford University Press, 2018.
Stone, Katherine Van Wezel. “The New Psychological Contract: Implications of the Changing Workplace for Labor an Employment Law.” Ucla L. Rev., vol. 48, 2000, p. 519.
The Truth About “Performance Improvement Plans.” https://www.forbes.com/sites/lizryan/2016/04/08/the-truth-about-performance-improvement-plans/#64b075b63b36. Accessed 6 Jan. 2019.
Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women at All Cost. 3 Dec. 2018. www.bloomberg.com, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-03/a-wall-street-rule-for-the-metoo-era-avoid-women-at-all-cost.
Shame and History
Creighton, Millie R. “Revisiting Shame and Guilt Cultures: A Forty‐year Pilgrimage.” Ethos, vol. 18, no. 3, 1990, pp. 279–307.
Lunch, William L., and Peter W. Sperlich. “American Public Opinion and the War in Vietnam.” Western Political Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 1, 1979, pp. 21–44.
Ruth, Benedict. “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture.” Boston, MA: Mariner, 1946.
---. “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture.” Boston, MA: Mariner, 1946.
Skemp, Sheila L. The Making of a Patriot: Benjamin Franklin at the Cockpit. Critical Historical Encounters, 2013.
Stearns, Peter N. Shame: A Brief History. University of Illinois Press, 2017.
The Rise of Shame in America - HonorShame. http://honorshame.com/rise-shame-america/. Accessed 8 Jan. 2019.
Shame and Politics
Horwitz, Robert B. “Politics as Victimhood, Victimhood as Politics.” Journal of Policy History, vol. 30, no. 3, 2018, pp. 552–74.
Kass, John. “Democrats, Maxine Waters, Is the Sky Falling?” Chicagotribune.Com, https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-met-kass-maxine-waters-democrats-20180626-story.html. Accessed 12 Dec. 2018.
Kerry: Public Shaming Is ‘Most Powerful Weapon in Many Ways’ to Enforce World Climate Agreement - Washington Free Beacon. https://freebeacon.com/issues/kerry-public-shaming-most-powerful-weapon-in-many-ways-enforce-climate-agreement/. Accessed 8 Jan. 2019.
Nancy Pelosi Questions Trump’s “Manhood” After White House Meeting | Newsmax.Com. https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/nancy-pelosi-manhood-democrats-border-wall/2018/12/11/id/894071/. Accessed 12 Dec. 2018.
Ott, Brian L. “The Age of Twitter: Donald J. Trump and the Politics of Debasement.” Critical Studies in Media Communication, vol. 34, no. 1, Jan. 2017, pp. 59–68, doi:10.1080/15295036.2016.1266686 .
“Political Correctness ‘shames’ Differing Points of Views.” Daily Republic, 1 July 2017, https://www.dailyrepublic.com/all-dr-news/opinion/local-opinion-columnists/political-correctness-shames-differing-points-of-views/.
Salmela, Mikko, and Christian von Scheve. “Emotional Dynamics of Right-and Left-Wing Political Populism.” Humanity & Society, vol. 42, no. 4, 2018, pp. 434–54.
---. “Emotional Roots of Right-Wing Political Populism.” Social Science Information, vol. 56, no. 4, Dec. 2017, pp. 567–95. SAGE Journals, doi:10.1177/0539018417734419 .
Shaming Trump’s Voters, His Supporters and Apologists Is Exactly What We Should Do. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/7/2/1677200/-Shaming-Trump-s-voters-his-supporters-and-apologists-is-exactly-what-we-should-do. Accessed 7 Jan. 2019.
Shamsian, Jacob. “Stormy Daniels Says She Regrets ‘body Shaming’ Trump by Comparing His Anatomy to ‘the Mushroom Character in Mario Kart.’” INSIDER, https://www.thisisinsider.com/stormy-daniels-regret-body-shaming-trump-anatomy-mario-mushroom-character-2018-10. Accessed 12 Dec. 2018.
Stop Shaming Trump Supporters - NYTimes.Com. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/opinion/election-night-2016/stop-shaming-trump-supporters. Accessed 4 Jan. 2019.
Wallace, Chris. “Shame as a Political Weapon: Donald Trump and the US Presidential Election.” The Conversation, http://theconversation.com/shame-as-a-political-weapon-donald-trump-and-the-us-presidential-election-69029. Accessed 10 Dec. 2018.
Shame in the Recent the Popular Press
Jacquet, Jennifer. Is shame necessary?: New uses for an old tool. Vintage, 2016.
Ronson, Jon. So you've been publicly shamed. Riverhead Books, 2016.
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