TY - JOUR
T1 - Negative social emotions and cognition: Shame, guilt and working memory impairments
AU - Cavalera, Cesare Massimo
AU - Pepe, Alessandro
AU - Zurloni, Valentino
AU - Diana, Barbara
AU - Piazzini, Diana Barbara
AU - Realdon, Olivia
AU - Todisco, Patrizia
AU - Castelnuovo, Gianluca
AU - Molinari, Enrico
AU - Pagnini, Francesco
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Negative emotions can have an impact on a variety of cognitive domains, including Working Memory (WM). The present work investigated whether shame and guilt modulate WM performance in a dual-task test both in a non-clinical and a clinical population. In Experiment 1, 76 non-clinical participants performed a dual-task before and after being randomly assigned to shame, guilt or neutral inductions elicited by the writing of autobiographical past experiences. Shame and guilt elicitations were related to impaired WM performances. In Experiment 2, 65 clinical inpatients with eating disorders were assigned to the same procedure. The negative relationship of self-conscious emotions and WM was confirmed. Taken together these results suggest that shame and guilt are related to impairments of WM in both clinical and non-clinical participants.
AB - Negative emotions can have an impact on a variety of cognitive domains, including Working Memory (WM). The present work investigated whether shame and guilt modulate WM performance in a dual-task test both in a non-clinical and a clinical population. In Experiment 1, 76 non-clinical participants performed a dual-task before and after being randomly assigned to shame, guilt or neutral inductions elicited by the writing of autobiographical past experiences. Shame and guilt elicitations were related to impaired WM performances. In Experiment 2, 65 clinical inpatients with eating disorders were assigned to the same procedure. The negative relationship of self-conscious emotions and WM was confirmed. Taken together these results suggest that shame and guilt are related to impairments of WM in both clinical and non-clinical participants.
KW - Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
KW - Developmental and Educational Psychology
KW - Eating disorders
KW - Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
KW - Guilt
KW - Shame
KW - Working memory
KW - Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
KW - Developmental and Educational Psychology
KW - Eating disorders
KW - Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
KW - Guilt
KW - Shame
KW - Working memory
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/122147
UR - http://www.elsevier.com/locate/actpsy
U2 - 10.1016/j.actpsy.2018.05.005
DO - 10.1016/j.actpsy.2018.05.005
M3 - Article
SN - 0001-6918
VL - 188
SP - 9
EP - 15
JO - Acta Psychologica
JF - Acta Psychologica
ER -