Neural correlates of the social emotions guilt shame and pride

  1. Sánchez Garcia, Jose
Dirigida per:
  1. Manuel Martín Loeches Director

Universitat de defensa: Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Fecha de defensa: 20 de de juliol de 2021

Tribunal:
  1. Fernando Colmenares President
  2. José Javier Campos-Bueno Secretari
  3. Luis Carretié Arangüena Vocal
  4. Ela Isabel Olivares Carreño Vocal
  5. José Miguel Fernández Dols Vocal
Departament:
  1. Psicobiología y Metodología en Ciencias del Comportamiento

Tipus: Tesi

Resum

Brain research on emotions is generally focused on basic emotions such as anger, fear, sadness, joy, contempt, surprise and disgust. These basic emotions, are by far, the most well understood. They are easy to approach, presumably universal and linked to other primates and non human animals. These characteristics have permitted a broader search. Social emotions as guilt, shame, embarrasment and pride, nevertheless, remain largely unexplored, although our life is tainted with them,.Social emotions are different to basic ones. They require complex cognitive and evaluative aspects, and not only emotional. In experimental settings are usually studied stemming from imagining or remembering situations removed from social reality. Participants imagines him/herself acting in a precise situation, or tries to restore a memory, relatively recent, in which that emotion has been felt in a similar social context. This experimental setting is very different to social life, where social emotions emerge as a reaction to self predictions, precise contexts, standards and norms...