"Shame proneness is associated with a desire to hide or withdraw from the situation following a transgression, " says Cohen.

BBC: Why feeling guilty may make you a better boss

She has collected some preliminary evidence that suggests that people with higher guilt proneness actually feel guilty less often than people with lower guilt proneness.

BBC: Why feeling guilty may make you a better boss

If guilt proneness is so positive, should we be encouraging it?

BBC: Why feeling guilty may make you a better boss

Artists, he says, rely on our proneness to visual illusions arising out of the fact that all perception involves unconscious inference, as when a two-dimensional retinal image is translated into a three-dimensional perception.

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Information on families' religious, educational, professional and political inclinations, the average longevity of their members, their proneness to suicide and divorce and so forth, must shed some explanatory light on the personalities under genealogical scrutiny.

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They would charge extra for drivers living in accident-heavy urban areas, for homeowners who insist on building in the path of hurricanes, for deadbeats (turns out there's a correlation between low credit scores and accident-proneness) and for teenage boys.

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