The regulatory function of self-conscious emotion: insights from patients with orbitofrontal damage |
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Authors: | Beer Jennifer S Heerey Erin A Keltner Dacher Scabini Donatella Knight Robert T |
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Affiliation: | Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1650, USA. jbeer@socrates.berkeley.edu |
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Abstract: | Although once considered disruptive, self-conscious emotions are now theorized to be fundamentally involved in the regulation of social behavior. The present study examined the social regulation function of self-conscious emotions by comparing healthy participants with a neuropsychological population--patients with orbitofrontal lesions--characterized by selective regulatory deficits. Orbitofrontal patients and healthy controls participated in a series of tasks designed to assess their social regulation and self-conscious emotions. Another task assessed the ability to infer others' emotional states, an appraisal process involved in self-conscious emotion. Consistent with the theory that self-conscious emotions are important for regulating social behavior, the findings show that deficient behavioral regulation is associated with inappropriate self-conscious emotions that reinforce maladaptive behavior. Additionally, deficient behavioral regulation is associated with impairments in interpreting the self-conscious emotions of others. |
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