As our lab's name suggests, we are interested in the interplay of emotion and personality in the onset and maintenance of psychopathology. Much of our research focuses on a specific emotion -- shame.
Shame can be an especially painful emotion, and it is related to many forms of psychopathology. For example, our past research projects have demonstrated relationships between shame and personality pathology, posttraumatic stress, and generalized anxiety. Other projects provide evidence of functional connections between experiences of shame and specific maladaptive behaviors, such as self-injury and aggression against others.
Our research continues to focus largely (though not exclusively) on shame-related traits and shame experiences in the development and maintenance of psychopathology, as well as on how shame may be effectively addressed in clinical and other supportive settings.
Shame can be an especially painful emotion, and it is related to many forms of psychopathology. For example, our past research projects have demonstrated relationships between shame and personality pathology, posttraumatic stress, and generalized anxiety. Other projects provide evidence of functional connections between experiences of shame and specific maladaptive behaviors, such as self-injury and aggression against others.
Our research continues to focus largely (though not exclusively) on shame-related traits and shame experiences in the development and maintenance of psychopathology, as well as on how shame may be effectively addressed in clinical and other supportive settings.
Measures available from the PEPR Lab
- Shame-Aversive Reactions Questionnaire (ShARQ; Schoenleber & Berenbaum, 2010)
- Guilt Aversion Assessment (GuAvA; Schoenleber & Berenbaum, 2012)
- Punishment Deservingness Scale (PDS; Schoenleber, Berenbaum, & Motl, 2014)
- Brief-Pathological Narcissism Inventory (B-PNI; Schoenleber, Roche, Wetzel, Pincus, & Roberts, 2015)
- Super Brief-Pathological Narcissism Inventory (SB-PNI; Schoenleber et al., 2015)
- Topic-Related Emotions Examination (T-REX; Cohen, Schoenleber, Gratz, & Tull, 2020)