The Science of Awkwardness
awkward.........
Sources and extra links below!
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Embarrassment and prosociality: http://ist-socrates.berkeley.e....du/~keltner/publicat
Empathetic Embarrassment:
http://www.npr.org/2014/07/19/....332760081/the-opposi
http://healthland.time.com/201....1/05/05/why-your-emb
Cringe subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/cringe
awkward hug gifs: http://giphy.com/search/awkward-hug
Embarrassment: http://www.apa.org/monitor/201....2/11/embarrassment.a
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (on YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/user/obscuresorrows
“Why Are We Morbidly Curious?” (related Vsauce video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbdMMI6ty0o
social rejection and physical pain: http://www.pnas.org/content/108/15/6270.full
Social awkwardness and genetics:
http://news.sciencemag.org/soc....ial-sciences/2009/11
http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Rs53576
Psychology experiments that test the breaking of social norms are called “breaching experiments”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaching_experiment
Stage Fright: http://business.uni.edu/buscom....m/Presentations/stag
Oxytocin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxytocin
http://www.psyneuen-journal.co....m/article/S0306-4530
Oxytocin and fear/anxiety:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_....releases/2013-07/nu-
negativity bias: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias
more negative emotions than positive:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm....c/articles/PMC315600
https://www.psychologytoday.co....m/blog/in-the-name-l
Eleanor Roosevelt quote: http://www.goodreads.com/quote....s/26110-you-wouldn-t
“in you 20s and 30s…” quote: http://www.ihhp.com/equotes/
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (on YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/user/obscuresorrows
“sonder” gif: http://i.imgur.com/zxBZ0vF.gif
