Her ostensible indifference to and rebellion against suggestions and criticisms by anyone except peer friends during adolescence are the manifestations, in her adolescence, of her having been indoctrinated in childhood to feel shame, if not guilt, for failing to behave in a manner acceptable to, and judged by, the performance of her nursery- and elementary-school peer friends.

As a person now drinks to feel normal, they block out the feelings of overwhelming guilt, remorse, anxiety, and shame they experience when sober.

* C. Efrati, The road of danger, guilt, and shame: the lonely way of A. E. Housman ( Associated University Presse, 2002 ) ISBN 0-8386-3906-2

Hunt argues that it was not the guilt of wickedness, but the shame of weakness that seized Germany's national psychology, and " served as a solvent of the Weimar democracy and also as an ideological cement of Hitler's dictatorship.

Being Japanese at that time meant shame, guilt, and an image of the enemy.

World War II resulted in the destruction of Germany's political and economic infrastructure and led directly to its partition, considerable loss of territory ( especially in the east ), and historical legacy of guilt and shame.

Ruth Benedict made a distinction, relevant in this context, between " guilt " societies ( e. g., medieval Europe ) with an " internal reference standard ", and " shame " societies ( e. g., Japan, " bringing shame upon one's ancestors ") with an " external reference standard ", where people look to their peers for feedback on whether an action is " acceptable " or not ( also known as " group-think ").

Other, less restricted forms of psychological egoism may allow the ultimate goal of a person to include such things as avoiding punishments from oneself or others ( such as guilt or shame ) and attaining rewards ( such as pride, self-worth, power or reciprocal beneficial action ).

That is, strict rational choice theory would not see a criminal's self-punishment by inner feelings of remorse, guilt, or shame as relevant to determining the costs of committing a crime.

Feelings of embarrassment, shame, frustration, fear, anger, and guilt are frequent in people who stutter, and may actually increase tension and effort, leading to increased stuttering.

According to Fromm, the awareness of a disunited human existence is a source of guilt and shame, and the solution to this existential dichotomy is found in the development of one's uniquely human powers of love and reason.

When members tell their story to a supportive audience, they can obtain relief from chronic feelings of shame and guilt.

Torture victims often feel guilt and shame, triggered by the humiliation they have endured.

For instance, if a person's car is damaged, they will feel angry if someone else did it ( e. g. another driver rear-ended it ), but will feel sadness instead if it was caused by situational forces ( e. g. a hailstorm ) or guilt and shame if they were personally responsible ( e. g. he crashed into a wall out of momentary carelessness ).

After making statements, the POWs would admit to each other what had happened, lest shame or guilt consume them or make them more vulnerable to additional North Vietnamese pressure.

The location of the dividing line between the concepts of shame, guilt, and embarrassment is not fully standardized.

According to cultural anthropologist Ruth Benedict, shame is a violation of cultural or social values while guilt feelings arise from violations of one's internal values.

" Similarly, Fossum and Mason say in their book Facing Shame that " While guilt is a painful feeling of regret and responsibility for one's actions, shame is a painful feeling about oneself as a person.

In this view, guilt is considered to be a learned behavior consisting essentially of self-directed blame or contempt, with shame occurring consequent to such behaviors making up a part of the overall experience of guilt.

According to the anthropologist Ruth Benedict, cultures may be classified by their emphasis on the use of either shame or guilt to regulate the social activities of individuals.

Thus, conscience can be viewed as an outcome of those biological drives that prompt humans to avoid provoking fear or contempt in others ; being experienced as guilt and shame in differing ways from society to society and person to person.

As Hannah Arendt pointed out, however, ( following the utilitarian John Stuart Mill on this point ): a bad conscience does not necessarily signify a bad character ; in fact only those who affirm a commitment to applying moral standards will be troubled with remorse, guilt or shame by a bad conscience and their need to regain integrity and wholeness of the self.

Seppuku was a method of ritualized suicide the Bushi and Samurai used when confronted with shame or defeat, or when ordered to do so by their master.

* Toxic shame: describes false, pathological shame, and Bradshaw states that toxic shame is induced, inside children, by all forms of child abuse.

He believed that achieving nothing in life while being so intelligent and educated would bring shame to not just himself but to all scholars.

On 9 August Howard wrote that he believed the Armada would return because " they dare not go back with this dishonour and shame ; for we have marvellously plucked them ".

In addition to his commitment to the cause of justice for African Americans, she believed her father celebrated black resistance under slavery as an attempt " to compensate for his deep shame about the way, he believed, the Jews had acted during the Holocaust.

The misery of Miriam's bitterness can be felt today by anyone who studies the case -- it was hopeless, agonizing, and destructive, with Miriam herself bearing the heaviest burden of shame and pain.

I know that I myself felt that it was a mortal shame for a man to be torn open by a British musket ball, as Isaac had been, yet I also felt relieved and lucky that it had been him and not myself.

Once in a while they said what a shame it was, with Granny dying, but they all agreed she wouldn't have wanted it any other way.

She was well suited to the precise work but later wrote, " this was the lowest depth I ever reached in commercial art, and although it was a period when youth and romance were in their first attendance on me, I remember it with gloom and record it with shame.

Male chauvinism was found to represent an attempt to ward off anxiety and shame arising from one or more of four prime sources: unresolved infantile strivings and regressive wishes, hostile envy of women, oedipal anxiety, and power and dependency conflicts related to masculine self-esteem.

In English, the meaning was taken from being " embarrassed ", ill at ease, hindered, by shame.

Raising a toast to the crew, he " felt overwhelmed by shame … I was in a no exit situation.

In many respects, the novel ’ s “ current reader ” of the time was the woman who “ lay down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame ,” according to Jane Austen, author of Northanger Abbey.

Forced to sign a peace treaty with the Poles after the Battle of Chotin ( Chocim ) ( which was, in fact, a siege of Chotin defended by the Polish hetman Jan Karol Chodkiewicz ) in September – October, 1621, Osman II returned home to Istanbul in shame, blaming the cowardice of the Janissaries and the insufficiency of his statesmen for his humiliation.

One of her proudest moments was when she singlehandedly caused the entire United States Military to flee Killmotor Hill, armed only with a broom, and her bad temper, much to the shame of the current president, Theodore Roosevelt, and the fear of the soldiers.

Master Alberto da Bologna honorably puts to shame a lady who sought occasion to put him to shame in that he was in love with her.

The red Schwenkel on top of the banner had varying interpretations: For the people of Zurich, it was a mark of honour, granted by Rudolph I. Zurich's neighbours mocked it as a sign of shame, commemorating the loss of the banner at Winterthur in 1292.

Lawbreaking was counseled against because of both the shame associated with detection and the punishment it might bring.

Public nudity was viewed as bringing shame on the viewer, not just the naked, as seen in Noah's case:

Additionally, Carroll inserted on his own expense an " Easter Greeting " into the first edition of his poem after it already was printed: "... And if I have written anything to add to those stores of innocent and healthy amusement that are laid up in books for the children I love so well, it is surely something I may hope to look back upon without shame and sorrow ( as how much of life must then be recalled!

Henry was known for his anti-Jewish decrees, such as a decree compelling Jews to wear a special " badge of shame " in the form of the Two Tablets.

When Valerian sunk under the weight of shame and grief, his skin, stuffed with straw, and formed into the likeness of a human figure, was preserved for ages in the most celebrated temple of Persia ; a more real monument of triumph, than the fancied trophies of brass and marble so often erected by Roman vanity.

Albany confronts Goneril with the letter which was intended to be his death warrant ; she flees in shame and rage.

:: At first the name Baʿal was used by the Jews for their God without discrimination, but as the struggle between the two religions developed, the name Baʿal was given up in Judaism as a thing of shame, and even names like Jerubbaʿal were changed to Jerubbosheth: Hebrew bosheth means " shame ".