Facial flushing after the ingestion of alcohol is common among Asians. Flushers are genetically less able to tolerate alcohol than nonflushers and are less likely to become alcoholics. This study examined whether lower consumption of alcohol among flushers was correlated with cultural factors such as embarrassment over flushing as well as with biological factors among Japanese in Japan and Japa...

A survey on the impact of embarrassment on condom purchase behavior was conducted among 130 individuals. The survey sample (93 males, 37 females) were recruited at the University of British Columbia. The primary independent variable of interest was the embarrassment of the respondents when purchasing condoms. The background variables were also considered which included the assessments of sex...

The personal character of ethnography makes it meaningful to pay attention emotions during fieldwork, not the least which is awkwardness or embarrassment. To make a fool oneself commit faux pas in field belongs palette ethnographic experience, and often defined as helpful for obtaining new knowledge about setting. But whereas many ethnographers emphasize didactic quality shameful mistakes, this...

or brain size corrected for body size. For example, I collected ethograms from the mid-twentieth century ethology literature, and across mammals the number of behaviors in the repertoire strongly correlates with relative brain size (EQ), not with absolute brain size [Changizi 2003, 2007]. As Chittka and Niven suggest, bigger brains may possess 'more of the same' of what is found in small brains...

This article is based on research commissioned by the UK Government's Teenage Pregnancy Unit. The Living on the Edge (LOTE) study qualitatively explored factors that shape young people's experiences and attitudes towards sexual behaviour and young parenthood in three linked seaside and rural areas in England. It identifies embarrassment as a key risk factor in young people's sexual behaviour an...

While being in the center of attention and exposed to other's evaluations humans are prone to experience embarrassment. To characterize the neural underpinnings of such aversive moments, we induced genuine experiences of embarrassment during person-group interactions in a functional neuroimaging study. Using a mock-up scenario with three confederates, we examined how the presence of an audience...