2007-02-17 23:06:12 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
As well as the previous answer, guilt is a personal feeling or emotion, shame can be both personal and public. You can be shamed by the public, but no one will feel guilt for you.
2007-02-17 23:11:13 · answer #1 · answered by yetiusmc 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hi! I feel that the biggest difference between guilt and shame is that if you have done someone wrong, and actually do something to make up for it, you have shown that you are ashamed. A guilty person who does nothing to correct his wrong doings, probably does not feel guilt in the first place, and keeps doing what he or she is good at; hurting others. We have to face facts; some people are beyond rescue in that respect..
2007-02-18 10:45:14 · answer #2 · answered by unanski 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I feel guilty about bad decisions I have made, but my guilt is private to me or at most one other person will know of it. Shame would be others finding out about what made me feel guilty because I would be ashamed of what they thought of me. However, I do believe that it is possible to feel guilt without the feeling of shame, there's some stuff I feel guilty about but not necessarily ashamed about because I felt it was worth it at the time and I could never regret it.
Brilliant question, I thought I could answer but I don't know that I managed!
2007-02-18 07:17:46 · answer #3 · answered by Flossie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guilt is your conscious nagging at you the feeling of regret of wanting to take back your actions.
Shame is the feeling of humiliation and disgrace.
I would say that guilt is typically felt prior to anyone knowing what you have done and shame is more the aftermath.
2007-02-18 07:58:58 · answer #4 · answered by Jeremy C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say that shame has the element of embarressment and remorse whereas guilt doesn't have to. For example: If I stole something from a stranger I would feel guilty but nothing too personal. If I stole from my mother, I would feel ashamed, remorseful, truly sorry etc as well as guilty. Yes?
2007-02-18 07:14:54 · answer #5 · answered by zweebob 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would say guilt is feeling sorry shame is being disgraced about what you have done i would say, very similar
2007-02-18 07:08:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guilt: Self imposed judgement after breaking ones own moral rules.
Shame: A feeling of disgrace at being morally weak for finding excitement at going against ones own better judgement.
2007-02-18 08:01:03 · answer #7 · answered by terry h 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guilt is wishing you hadn't done something. Shame is wishing that everyone didn't know that you'd done something. You can have either one without the other, or both or neither.
2007-02-18 07:39:18 · answer #8 · answered by Snakey B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
guilt is the action...shame is the feeling
2007-02-18 07:15:55 · answer #9 · answered by MARCO 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
guilt is when you did something wrong and you fill bad,- you fill guilty, shame is when something bad was done do you and your ashamed
2007-02-18 07:18:46 · answer #10 · answered by rabbi 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋