Treść i struktura prototypu wstydu jako przykładu emocji złożonej
Content and structure of shame’s prototype as complex emotion’s example

Summary/Abstract: This study is based on the conclusion that emotion knowledge is organized in terms of prototypes. The subject of this exploratory study is autoevaluative self-conscious emotion – shame. The participants (N = 29) were asked to describe emotional autobiographical emotional episode. Then the subjects‘ narratives were categorized by coders and submitted to hierarchical cluster analysis. The result was a prototypical description of this emotion. Derived, exploratory results provide mainly: 1) the description of complex emotion as prototype, 2) the structural characteristic of shame, 3) arbitrate the issue of „potential synthesis“ in the field of postcognitive emotions.

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