The independence of affective reactions

• Introducing Shame Language to Clients by Brett Schur - Havertown, PA - bschur@msn.com, 3/12/96
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    • Shame necessary for negative affect? by (No author), 9/22/98
      
      

The innate trigger for the affect anger-rage is a steady-state stimulus that continues at a far higher than optimal level. Often this is the sort of thing we describe as overload. The anger that appears when we have been humiliated is a learned reaction of the type we call a script. Although a great fraction of the anger responses we see in normal social life may be linked to shame that is handled in this "attack other" manner, much anger involves the sort of overload mentioned above.

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