Don’t miss the forest for the trees: New recommendations for exploiting guilt and shame in self‐control conflicts

Guilt and shame, two negative self‐conscious emotions, have drawn theoretical and empirical attention in studying self‐control. Although a functionalist view suggests that their reparative tendencies would help combat self‐control failures, the evidence is equivocal. In this review, we begin with a systematic analysis of how the context of self‐control conflicts allows mood management to dominate reparative control as the primary means of...