Ability to live up to the shame and guilt allows humans to reflect, evaluate and regulate themselves. It’s become an important prerequisite of its morality and integrity.
Imagine the following two situations. Although obtaining my change too much, you just be quiet. Or you use the money from the office to your own interests, and caught, although few in number. Which is more disturbing you? The first event associated with guilt, or second events, associated with feelings of shame.
Shame associated with self failure, or felt when we assessed or assess ourselves inadequate, deficient and does not meet the required demands. The demands could from ourselves, but more often from outside. Shame leads to self-improvement and efforts to restore a more positive identity. Therefore, the action tendency associated with shame is run, hide things considered ideal or negative it, or fix it.
In the meantime, we appreciate ourselves guilt when behavior is inconsistent with the personal moral values, when we evaluate ourselves negatively associated with specific actions that we do, regardless of whether others know it or not. Guilt prevents us from doing bad actions even further, and the tendency of the action taken efforts to improve themselves, for example by asking for forgiveness and not repeat the action.
Guilt focuses on behavior (I’ve made a mistake), while shyness, more relevant as a whole self-evaluation (I’m not proud, I failed). Errors that no one else knows is likely to cause guilt, while if publicly known, would bring shame.
Moral emotions motivate ethical action, encouraging people to behave according to the standard good-bad or right and wrong. The biggest difference between individual antisocial and who is not, is that the antisocial unable to empathize, not able to live the shame and Guilt, which causes us to care what happens to other people around us. Antisocial may actually take advantage of the situation for his own benefit
Embarrassment associated with the evaluation of other people (real or merely imagined), whereas guilt associated with negative evaluations of themselves. Both are very important. Led to the evaluation of external social sanctions will also regulate our behavior. Meanwhile, an evaluation of the course even more important because we are going to try to behave well, do not care whether people know it or not. Guilt over allowing the growth of sympathy and empathy for others.