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Coping with the Prospect of Social Disapproval

Strategies and Sequelae

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Book cover Coping with Negative Life Events

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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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  1. Department of Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, USA

    Ann H. Baumgardner

  2. Department of Psychology, University of Missouri-Columbia, 210 McAlester Hall, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA

    Robert M. Arkin

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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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