Foreign scientists have conducted studies that have proven that shame helps a person survive in a large group of people. This information appeared on the pages of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
A group of scientists from around the world conducted research that helped to understand that the feeling of shame appeared in humans as a result of evolution and seriously helps him survive in society. According to research director Daniel Snitzer, shame can be compared to pain, which was also developed in the process of evolution and protects humans from exposure to their tissues.
The shame manifested itself so that relations between people did not finally deteriorate, to confirm this opinion, 900 people from India, the United States of America and Israel took part in the experiment. The respondents had to describe their feelings in fictional situations, in connection with which the person's behavior would lead him to condemnation from a group of people.
A group of participants were asked to describe their feelings towards a person who experienced infidelity, greed, and tiredness, and they felt shame and its intensity. Scientists note that they saw a striking similarity in the behavior of people who feel shame for another person with the one who is ashamed, which helps a person adapt to society and survival in it.
Dmitry Steglenko