New brain research reveals how guilt and shame shape moral behavior, showing why guilt promotes repair while shame often leads to withdrawal.

A study of sexually active women in Indonesia found that women who experience stronger sexual guilt and sexual anxiety tend ...

Once forgiveness enters the chat, everything gets easier. Resetting your budget no longer feels like punishment and starts ...

What parent hasn’t been there? It’s been a long day, you still have dinner to make, maybe lunches for tomorrow, too, and you just don’t have the energy to wrangle your kids into a new art project or ...

Ever feel the weight of guilt? Lots of people say they do. They're "carrying guilt" or "weighed down by guilt." Are these just expressions, or is there something more to these metaphors? Researchers ...

Every personal problem is also a social problem. This means that most of our problems, no matter how personal they may seem, are connected with the type of society we live in.

The feeling of guilt can frustrate all your attempts at becoming a better leader. It can also lead to being controlled by negativity. Nevertheless, as strange as it seems, a certain amount of guilt ...

Motherhood means a daily experience of guilt and anxiety about our kids, especially for working moms in America. It is so universal that we don’t question it: being a mom means feeling guilty all the ...

Guilt, like worry, is a useless emotion—useless because we don’t need to feel bad about ourselves to take corrective actions. Guilt is a useless emotion for three basic reasons: You can't change the ...

Surviving a traumatic event can bring forth conflicting (and completely normal) feelings: grief for those who didn’t survive relief, gratitude, and an overwhelming sense of your own good fortune You ...

There are two things that struck me the most in the book: firstly, Eranux's thoughts during the funeral, and secondly, her statement about her mother’s appearance after Alzheimer's Disease had gripped ...