Jon Elster

Quotes From

“Rationality and the Emotions” (1999)

• A person who treated his shame as a cost would in all likelihood never feel any.#

“Emotions and Economic Theory” (1998)

• Material sanctions themselves are best understood as vehicles of the emotion of contempt, which is the direct trigger of shame#Quoted in Sam Bowles & Herbert Gintis, A Cooperative Species (2011)