Adaptive value of shame mechanism?

• Welcome to the BOL Forum on Shame and Affect Theory by John Grohol, 2/10/96
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    • Downregulation of shame affect by Don Nathanson, 4/17/97
      
      

I read with interest your posting about shame and I wonder if you could comment on how the evolution of such a mechanism would have occured. How would it have been adaptive during our evolutionary times?

• Adaptive value of an affect by Don Nathanson, 1/24/98
  • Guilt vs. shame? by Anna Kay, 1/10/99