"Silvan Tomkins’s theory of innate, biologically-based affects describes the internal reward system that powers human motivation and explains the systematic, incremental development of emotion, learning, personality and ideology. We at the Tomkins Institute are devoted to testing, advancing, and applying this powerful Human Being Theory."
Maybe it's me, but that seems pretty intimidating. I read a few things from the "What Tomkins Said" section of the site; my favorite is "The self lives in the face.” Anyway, this site is a gold mine-- there's lots of people talking about shame in a way that's a bit easier to understand than Tomkins himself.
About the articles below: I gave Zemanta the keyword "embarrassment," and most of the articles they suggested had something to do with Donald Trump. I certainly didn't go looking for stuff about him.
