📚 noun • entry_id 59689
vicarious embarrassment
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The uncomfortable sympathetic feeling experienced while watching someone else embarrass themselves.
It is noted that vicarious embarrassment does not necessarily indicate the presence of an embarrassed other.
The same brain regions, the study found, are implicated in vicarious embarrassment – watching President Obama give an awkward hug of his own to departing press secretary Jay Carney…
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