Ever wonder why your pulse races and your heart beats faster and you start to sweat when you’re embarrassed? You can blame your pregenual anterior cingulate cortex, a thumb-sized region in the brain ...

Embarrassment, guilt, and shame are recognitions that the self-image we so carefully construct and monitor – before ourselves as before others – has been damaged. Recognizing this fall from grace, our ...

A laughing moment of embarrassment is a tough one to pull off, mainly because there is a psychological component to watching TV. Yes, there is more than just a serial relationship with your favorite ...

I passed by him yesterday. The Diag is absolutely terrible when you are trying to avoid someone, and of course, I happened to pass him by the Chemistry Building, home to all pre-med warriors seemingly ...

You know the feeling. You see something embarrassing happen to someone else—or you sit through a particular cringe-inducing scene in a sitcom or comedy movie—and you feel embarrassed on behalf of the ...

Usually a “mo-ooom!” and an eyeroll are enough to tell us our kids are annoyed, cringing, and/or embarrassed by us. But in case that’s not enough, teens invented a new way to let their parents know ...