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This is the Homepage of a
Leverhulme-funded Research Project on the Social Psychology of Embarrassment at the School of Psychology,
University of St Andrews
Principal Investigator: Dr Anja Eller
Post-doc Researcher: Dr Miriam Koschate
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Our main focus is the impact of the audience on
embarrassment.
Although we all get embarrassed from time to time, some people or groups may
elicit more embarrassment than others. We will try to find out who these
people are and, in particular, to which groups they belong.
Are
we more or less embarrassed when faced by people of our own nationality or by
foreigners?
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| Media Coverage | Will they feel embarrassed on our behalf or laugh at us when we are
in a predicament?
Does contact with other groups and their members (e.g. other
cultures) change how embarrassed we get if we violate norms that are not ours?
And how do people show to their own social group that they are sorry for
behaving in an embarrassing way? | |
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