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embarrassment
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Research
6,904 papers- An Embarrassment of Riches: Three FDA-Approved Bispecific Antibodies for Relapsed Refractory Multiple Myeloma.Blood cancer discovery · 2023
- Editorial overview: An embarrassment of riches.Current opinion in plant biology · 2021
- Embarrassment guides language choice.Cognition · 2026
- Embarrassment: its distinct form and appeasement functions.Psychological bulletin · 1997
- An embarrassment of riches? Mechanisms underlying VCP neurodegeneration.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2023
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Causes
- Professional embarrassment
- Vicarious embarrassment
- Types in social psychology
- Etymology
- In Judaism
- See also
- References
- External links
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Embarrassment or awkwardness is an emotional state that is associated with mild to severe levels of discomfort, and which is usually experienced when someone commits (or thinks of) a socially unacceptable or frowned-upon act that is witnessed by or revealed to others. Frequently grouped with shame and guilt, embarrassment is considered a "self-conscious emotion", and it can have a profoundly negative impact on a person's thoughts or behavior.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “embarrassment” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.