Shame 4.0 Investigating an Emotion in Digital Worlds and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Claude-Hélène Mayer  (Dr. habil., PhD, PhD) is Professor in I/0 Psychology at the Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management at the University of Johannesburg; Adjunct Professor at the Europa Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany and Senior Research Associate at the Department of Management at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. She holds various degrees from Germany, the UK and South Africa. Her Venia Legendi is in Psychology with focus on Work, Organizational, and Cultural Psychology. Her research areas are transcultural mental health, salutogenesis and sense of coherence, shame, transcultural conflict management and mediation, women in leadership in culturally diverse work contexts, coaching and consulting psychology, and psychobiography.

Elisabeth Vanderheiden  is a pedagogue, theologian, intercultural mediator. She is the CEO of the Global Institute for Transcultural Research and the President ofCatholic Adult Education in Germany. Her publishing activities focus on pedagogy, in particular on the further education of teachers and trainers in adult education, vocational and civic education, but also on the challenges of digitalisation. She has also edited books on intercultural and transnational issues. Her most recent publications deal with shame as a resource as well as with mistakes, errors and failures and their hidden potentials in the context of Culture and Positive Psychology 1.0 and 2.0. Current research projects deal with love in transcultural contexts, with life crises as well as humour in the context of Positive Psychology 2.0. Another focus of her work is Design Thinking in transcultural contexts.

Paul T. P. Wong,  PhD, C.Psych. is Professor Emeritus of Trent University and Adjunct Professor at Saybrook University. He is a Fellow of the APA and CPA and President of the International Network on Personal Meaning and the Meaning-Centered Counselling Institute. He is editor of the International Journal of Existential Psychology and Psychotherapy, and has also edited two influential volumes on The Human Quest for Meaning. A prolific writer, he is one of the most cited existential and positive psychologists. The originator of Meaning Therapy and International Meaning Conferences, he has been invited to give keynotes and meaning therapy workshops worldwide. He is the recent recipient of the Carl Rogers Award from the Society for Humanistic Psychology (Div. 32 of the APA).