Published On Mar 20, 2015
awkward.........
Sources and extra links below!
me on twitter: / tweetsauce
me on instagram: / electricpants
music by / jakechudnow
Embarrassment and prosociality: http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~kel...
Empathetic Embarrassment:
http://www.npr.org/2014/07/19/3327600...
http://healthland.time.com/2011/05/05...
Cringe subreddit: / cringe
awkward hug gifs: http://giphy.com/search/awkward-hug
Embarrassment: http://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/11/em...
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows...
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (on YouTube): / obscuresorrows
“Why Are We Morbidly Curious?” (related Vsauce video): • Why Are We Morbidly Curious?
social rejection and physical pain: http://www.pnas.org/content/108/15/62...
Social awkwardness and genetics:
http://news.sciencemag.org/social-sci...
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/Breachin...
Stage Fright: http://business.uni.edu/buscomm/Prese...
Oxytocin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxytocin
http://www.psyneuen-journal.com/artic...
Oxytocin and fear/anxiety:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_release...
negativity bias: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativi...
more negative emotions than positive:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...
Eleanor Roosevelt quote: / you-wouldn-t-worry-so-much-about-what-othe...
“in you 20s and 30s…” quote: http://www.ihhp.com/equotes/
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows...
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (on YouTube): / obscuresorrows
“sonder” gif: http://i.imgur.com/zxBZ0vF.gif