When the social self is threatened: shame, physiology, and health.

By S. Dickerson, T. Gruenewald, M. Kemeny. Journal of Personality, 2004

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Subfields: Behavioral Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Principal time management skills: Explaining patterns in principals’ time use, job stress, and perceived effectiveness (2015, background): “…lack of control, unpredictability, social-evaluative threat (i.e., the prospect of being evaluated by others), and novelty or change, which are more likely to cause job stress (Averill 1973; Dickerson et al., 2009; Dickerson et al., 2004; Lazarus and Folkman, 1984; Masserman, 1971; Nicolson, 2008).”
Stress, eating and the reward system. (2007, background): “In humans, when “threat stress” includes a threat to one's social self concept, such as having some aspect of public embarrassment or failure, it is an even more potent trigger of cortisol release [20].”
Evolution and ontogeny of stress response to social challenges in the human child (2006, background): “Current psychosocial stress research suggests that cortisol response is stimulated by uncertainty that is perceived as signiWcant and for which behavioral responses will have unknown eVects (Dickerson & Kemeny, 2004; Kirschbaum & Hellhammer, 1994).”
Taking stock of the developmental literature on shame (2005, background): “…, withdrawal-related emotions (Davidson, 2004; Davidson, Jackson, & Kalin, 2000), and shame does appear to be associated with a stress response (Dickerson et al., 2004; Lewis & Ramsay, 2002), there is no evidence for SchoreÕs suggestion that misattunement activates these circuits or…”
Emotional Facial Expressions in Infancy (2010, background): “Replicating Hiatt et al. (1979), the investigators found both intersituational and intrasituational specificity for happiness expressions, intrasituational specificity but not intersituational specificity for surprise expressions, intersituational specificity but not intrasituational specificity for”
Health psychology: developing biologically plausible models linking the social world and physical health. (2009, background): “…response) in the face of danger, they have also evolved a parallel social self-preservation system that mobilizes emotions (e.g., shame) and biological responses (cortisol secretion and systemic inflammation) in the face of threats to one’s social standing within a group (Dickerson et al. 2004).”
Moral emotions and moral behavior. (2007, neutral): ““Body shame” has been consistently associated with self-objectiﬁcation and eating disorder symptoms (Hallsworth et al. the link between childhood abuse and body shame (see below).”
Psychobiological Responses to Social Self Threat: Functional or Detrimental? (2009, background): “We have proposed that these threats to the goal of maintaining the social self—or preserving one's social esteem, status, and acceptance—are capable of eliciting coordinated psychological, physiological, and behavioral responses (Dickerson, Gruenewald, & Kemeny, 2004a ; Gruenewald, Dickerson, & Kem”
Weight stigma is stressful. A review of evidence for the Cyclic Obesity/Weight-Based Stigma model. (2014, background): “In an extension of their theoretical model of social-evaluative threat, and drawing on Kemeny’s (2003) integrated specificity model of the psychobiology of stress, Dickerson et al. (2004) emphasized the role of shame as a fundamental emotional response to social threats.”
Brain mediators of cardiovascular responses to social threat, Part I: Reciprocal dorsal and ventral sub-regions of the medial prefrontal cortex and heart-rate reactivity (2009, background): “Threats to the ‘social self’ in particular elicit HPA-axis responses (Dickerson et al., 2004).”
Shame, self-criticism, self-stigma, and compassion in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (2015, background): “Shame, the main emotional component of stigma, impedes social engagement [15], promotes interpersonal disconnection [16], and interferes with interpersonal problem solving [17].”