Colin Leach, University of Connecticut

Date: 

Friday, September 11, 2015, 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

CGIS K401

Title: Self-critical emotions about in-group wrongdoing

Description: People are emotionally affected by the actions of their in-group. Social and political psychology has focused on self-critical emotions, like shame and guilt, because they should motivate self-correction.  However, studies of domestic and international examples show that moral self-criticism is not so straightforward.

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