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West Virginia Gazette: Should we have shame?

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Release Date: October 18, 2009

An op-ed in the West Virginia Gazette about current society being shameless quotes Ronda Dearing, research scientist in the Research Institute on Addictions, who said guilt is different from shame, which involves a negative evaluation of one's self.