The TCTS authors welcome your interest in using our test for research!  We would be happy to support your individual efforts, and collaborate on projects if you wish.   

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If you have graduate students, please view the research page for students.

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Previous research has examined:​

• TCTS construct and discriminant validity in adults and teens

• Shame and social desirability

• The relationship between empathy and shame

• Gender differences in experiencing shame

• Shame in anorexia nervosa

• Cultural differences in body image shame

• Shame and negative body image in females

• Adolescent shame-based responses toward obesity

• Shame in adolescent male sex offenders

• Shame, aggression and empathy

• Shame and depression

• The role of shame in adolescent victim and bully behaviors

• Shame in women who experience domestic violence

• Shame and persistent mental illness

• Does shame have a critical developmental period?

• Shame in adolescence

• Shame as a mediator between parental maltreatment and interpersonal violence

• Measuring shame through physiological reactions using EEG

• Shame and masculinity 

 

If you do collect data, present at conferences and publish articles - drop us a line to let us know!

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