The Prosocial Shame Cycle

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🗃 Resources:: Dopamine Nation (2021)
2026-06-10

The prosocial shame cycle goes like this: Overconsumption leads to shame, which demands radical honesty and leads not to shunning, as we saw with destructive shame, but to acceptance and empathy, coupled with a set of required actions to make amends. The result is increased belonging and decreased consumption.