Embarrassment: A conceptual analysis

Harré, Rom

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511571183.007

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“…Adapted with permission. embarrassment (Tangney et al, 1996), which is consistent with previous speculations (e.g., Goffman, 1967;Harre, 1990). Participants in another study listed very few of the same antecedents for embarrassment and shame (9% overlap) or embarrassment and guilt (5% overlap; .…”

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Embarrassment: Its distinct form and appeasement functions.

Keltner

Buswell²

1997

Psychological Bulletin

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The authors address 2 questions about embarrassment. First, Is embarrassment a distinct emotion? The evidence indicates that the antecedents, experience, and display of embarrassment, and to a limited extent its autonomic physiology, are distinct from shame, guilt, and amusement and share the dynamic, temporal characteristics of emotion. Second, What are the theoretical accounts of embarrassment? Three accounts focus on the causes of embarrassment, positioning that it follows the loss of self-esteem, concern for others' evaluations, or absence of scripts to guide interactions. A fourth account focuses on the effects of the remedial actions of embarrassment, which correct preceding transgressions. A fifth account focuses on the functional parallels between embarrassment and nonhuman appeasement. The discussion focuses on unanswered questions about embarrassment.

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Section: Antecedents Of Embarrassmentsupporting

confidence: 88%

Embarrassment: Its distinct form and appeasement functions.

Keltner

Buswell²

1997

Psychological Bulletin

560

455

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“…As early as 1872, Dar-win described blushing as the most specifically human of all emotional expressions, and suggested that it is due to a sensitivity to people's opinions, primarily in relation to one's own personal appearance (Darwin, 1872(Darwin, /1993. It is considered that blushing cannot be brought on deliberately or be feigned, and that people rarely blush when alone (Harré, 1990). Blushing often seems to precede the experience of embarrassment and may function as an internal cue that makes the individual aware of an embarrassing situation (Edelmann, 1990).…”

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Core symptom pattern of social phobia

Fahlén

1996

Depress. Anxiety

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“…being promoted prematurely) might lead one to feel vulnerable to being shamed, as if the identity claim one is making is fraudulent and likely to be revealed as such. However, the extent to which failures in the role might be responded to with shame would depend on the importance to the individual of the successful enactment of the role (Harré, 1990), which in turn would relate to discourses about the role in the wider society. Thus longterm enactment of an ill-fitting but culturally endorsed role that is central to someone's life might mean that he or she would score highly on measures of dispositional shame, particularly the non-situational measures that assess negative affect towards the self or negative self-appraisals.…”

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Shame as a social phenomenon: A critical analysis of the concept of dispositional shame

Leeming

Boyle

2004

Psychol Psychother

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An increased clinical interest in shame has been reflected in the growing number of research studies in this area. However, clinically-orientated empirical investigation has mostly been restricted to the investigation of individual differences in dispositional shame. This paper reviews recent work on dispositional shame but then argues that the primacy of this construct has been problematic in a number of ways. Most importantly, the notion of shame as a context-free intrapsychic variable has distracted clinical researchers from investigating the management and repair of experiences of shame and shameful identities, and has made the social constitution of shame less visible.Several suggestions are made for alternative ways in which susceptibility to shame could be conceptualised, which consider how shame might arise in certain contexts and as a product of particular social encounters. For example, persistent difficulties with shame may relate to the salience of stigmatising discourses within a particular social context, the roles or subject positions available to an individual, the establishment of a repertoire of context-relevant shame avoidance strategies and the personal meaning of shamefulness.

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Embarrassment: A conceptual analysis

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Embarrassment: Its distinct form and appeasement functions.

Embarrassment: Its distinct form and appeasement functions.

Core symptom pattern of social phobia

Shame as a social phenomenon: A critical analysis of the concept of dispositional shame

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