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The Meaning and Measurement of Guilt

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Emotions in Personality and Psychopathology

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Mosher presents a comprehensive review of the literature on the objective measurement of guilt. Much of this work has been done by Mosher and his colleagues, and their work has culminated not only in the successful measurement of guilt but in well-differentiated and relatively independent scales for measuring sex-guilt, hostility-guilt, and moral-guilt. By beginning his project on the measurement of guilt with an incomplete-sentences test, Mosher anchored his test items in the language and phenomenology of a broad sample of individuals.

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