Guilt in the body and brain : a psychophysiological and neuroimaging investigation

• Main Author: Fourie, Melike Marethe
• Other Authors: Thomas, Kevin
• Format: Doctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Cape Town 2014
• Subjects: Psychology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10483

Guilt has been described as a quintessential moral emotion with an important regulatory function for the individual and society. Few studies have, however, empirically investigated guilt, largely because of challenges associated with its real-time elicitation. I aimed to elucidate the physiological and neural correlates of guilt by developing two novel emotion elicitation paradigms.