Human Dignity and Humiliation
In my doctoral dissertation, I examined humiliation, viewing it as a particularly forceful phenomenon that is often misunderstood and conflated with shame, embarrassment, or guilt (Gilbert, 1998; Klein, 1991; Moïsi, 2009; Stamm, 1978; Tangney et al., 1996). Researchers have given greater focus to shame than to humiliation. A study by Elison and Harter (2007) reviewed …