Self-conscious emotions - Kurt Fischer

This volume provides a comprehensive, in-depth review of the current theoretical and empirical literature on shame, guilt, embarrassment, and pride, with a special emphasis on methodological issues. Reflecting the emerging coherence in the study of affect, it brings together contributions from leading researchers and theoreticians from the fields of developmental psychology, clinical psychology, psychiatry, and sociology.
This book will be of interest to professionals in clinical and developmental psychology, psychiatry, social psychology, sociology, and anthropology. It also serves as a text for courses in the psychology of emotion, personality and emotion, and cultural psychology.