Guilt Emotion

A Guilt Emotion is a negative emotional experience where the emotional agent feels that their actions have compromised/violated their personal standard of conduct.

• AKA: Schuld, Culpabilidad.
• Context:
  • It can lead to Regret.
  • It can be felt by a Guilty-Feeling Person.
  • It can associated to a a Shame Emotion (for someone else's standard of conduct).
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• Example(s):
  • I feel guilty of doing X.
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• Counter-Example(s):
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• See: Culpability, Guilt (Law), Morality, Remorse.

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References

2016

• Justin Rowlatt. (2016). “The Opium Farmers with the Police on Their Side.” In: BBC News
  • QUOTE: He saw me taste the drug. “Don't do that. That stuff is very bad for you," he says. “Haven't you ever been tempted to try it?" I want to know. “I know that if I start using it, I'll get addicted and my future will be destroyed. The people who use it - I've seen them in the cities lying down, their family life is destroyed, their children don't go to school," he tells me. “But you're helping produce the stuff. Don't you feel guilty?" I ask. I'm not surprised by his answer. “I've got no choice," he says. “I've got no job and you get good money with the opium."

2014

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/guilt_(emotion) Retrieved:2014-10-21.
  • Guilt is a cognitive or an emotional experience that occurs when a person realizes or believes — accurately or not — that he or she has compromised his or her own standards of conduct or has violated a moral standard, and bears significant responsibility for that violation. It is closely related to the concept of remorse.

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/guilt Retrieved:2014-10-21.
  • … Guilt (emotion), an emotion that occurs when a person feels that they have violated a moral standard.

2013

• http://brenebrown.com/2013/01/14/2013114shame-v-guilt-html/
  • QUOTE: Based on my research and the research of other shame researchers, I believe that there is a profound difference between shame and guilt. I believe that guilt is adaptive and helpful – it’s holding something we’ve done or failed to do up against our values and feeling psychological discomfort. I define shame as the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging – something we’ve experienced, done, or failed to do makes us unworthy of connection. I don’t believe shame is helpful or productive.

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