their book. The first is Tangney and Dearing’s eight-year study of moral emotions in which they followed a group of almost four hundred children. Using a measurement instrument that presented potentially shaming or guilt-eliciting situations, they found that shame proneness in fifth-graders (that is, a susceptibility to shame) was a strong predictor of later school suspension, drug use (including amphetamines, depressants, hallucinogens and heroin) and suicide
