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Old 11-06-2007, 08:52 PM
manub manub is offline
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Default Re: the embarrassment phenomenon

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This phenomenon seems to be specifically intense empathy to people in embarrassing situations.

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Maybe it's easier to empathize with embarassment because it's a fairly common social feeling, and it can happen to any of us at pretty much anytime. Not like, say, disembowelment. At least not on the same probability scale!
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