A Brief Comparison Between Accounts of emotions
What is the difference between shame and anger?
- Behaviorism: we tend to behave differently when we are angry and when we are ashamed (psychological), a difference in the descriptions of two different kinds of awkward situations (analytic).
- Existentialism: two solutions to two problems.
- Cognitivism: Difference in content: in shame one feels responsible, while in anger one expresses an aversive reaction.
- Non-propositional cognitivism: anger and shame direct attention to different features (e.g. problems vs. social context)
- Evaluative: shame, but not anger, “track” social values and norms
- Empiricism: difference in our sensations, feelings;
- Social-constructionism: two different transitory roles: the ‘angry agent’ and the ‘ashamed agent’
- Social-intuitionism: different intuitions triggered by different situations
- Evolutionary approaches: adaptations to individual vs. collective problem-solving; or affect programs (natural kind) vs. social emotions (normative kinds)
- Neo-empiricism: different neural structures, different processing of bodily states, different integrations of affective and cognitive information.
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