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Samuel Clemens’s observation about the human condition is both insightful and amusing. Embarrassment is an all too familiar human emotion, and one that reveals a great deal about the nature of social relations. This chapter is not about embarrassment. Yet the fact that it exists, and can run so deep, does set the stage for the present analysis of the role of disapproval in social exchange.
Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar, Chapter 20
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Baumgardner, A.H., Arkin, R.M. (1987). Coping with the Prospect of Social Disapproval. In: Snyder, C.R., Ford, C.E. (eds) Coping with Negative Life Events. The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9865-4_12
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