This study explores the associations between shame, depression and social anxiety from
the perspective of social rank theory (Price and Sloman, 1987; Gilbert, 1989, 1992). Social …

This study set out to explore how people feel (anxious vs angry) and attribute blame for
criticism with the development of a new scale called the sensitivity to put-down scale. It was …

This study explored the associations and interactions between social rank (submissive
behaviour and social comparison), shame, rumination and depression. 125 undergraduate …

This paper suggests that humans have innate needs to be seen as attractive to others.
These needs form the basis for shame and mediate evaluations of social standing (status) …

In the present study, 182 young adults (131 men, 51 men: M age= 20.2) completed self-
report measures of shame and social avoidance/distress, anxiety, desirability, and negative …

This study was guided by the social rank theory of depression and aimed to explore the
relationship between depression, anxiety, stress and self‐harm with striving to avoid …

This study examines the relationships between shame, guilt, narcissism, and depression
and the gender differences connected with these states. We hypothesize that shame would …

Bushman, BJ, & Baumeister, RF (1998). Threatened egotism, narcissism, self-esteem, and
direct and displaced aggression: Does self-love or self-hate lead to violence? Journal of …

Social rank theory suggests that mood variation is linked to the security a person feels in
his/her social domain and the extent to which they are sensitive to involuntary subordination …

A sample of 215 undergraduates completed the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI), the
original and revised Self-Conscious Affect and Attribution Inventory, the Splitting Scale, and …