The psychological facts about shame and guilt

Shame and guilt are the two main emotions that most of us encounter in our daily life. Here we will discuss more the psychological facts and the internal and external experience we get out of it.

Behavioral psychology

Shame is nothing but a public experience while guilt is all about inner experience. Whenever a person feels shame he will avoid eye contact with the person of whom he feels shame. But this is not so with the person of guilt.

Under a situation where the damage is easily repairable both shame and guilt will motivate the person to rectify and fix. But if the damage is not repairable then the only person with guilt will be self-motivated to try to fix the damage. In general, both shame and guilt is the way of the response to doing something wrong. But the guilt will try to correct the error, if they cannot rectify it at one point they will surrender that they are guilt just like Max Gemma surrendered. But the shame will put down the person and will not try to correct it

The functionalism of these emotions

It has been tested and proved that shame will make a person drink more alcohol whereas guilt will avoid drinking. To be simple shame also wants to hide and escape while guilt wants to repair it. These functionalities of both emotions prove that guilt is pro-social while shame is not.