id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6075 Self-conscious emotions - Wikipedia .html text/html 1589 238 53 Self-conscious emotions, such as guilt, shame, embarrassment, and pride, are a variety of social emotions that relate to our sense of self and our consciousness of others' reactions to us. Self-conscious emotions have been shown to have social benefits. There is also possible research suggesting that a lack of self-conscious emotion is a contributing cause of bad behaviour. If the individual decides that they have caused a situation to occur, they then must decide if the situation was a success or a failure based on the social norms they have accrued, then attach the appropriate self-conscious feeling (Weiner, 1986). Patients suffering from FTLD offer information on the biological complexity involved in generating self-conscious emotions. Self-conscious emotions are seen to promote social harmony in different ways. Self-conscious emotions enable social healing. When an individual makes a social error, feelings of guilt or embarrassment changes not just the person's mood but their body language. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6075.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6075.txt