{"first_publish_date": "2006", "title": "Blushing and the social emotions", "covers": [1744623], "lc_classifications": ["QP401 .C76 2006"], "key": "/works/OL3342875W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL542174A"}}], "dewey_number": ["152.4"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Blushing", "Emotions", "Physiological aspects", "Physiological aspects of Emotions", "Self-consciousness", "Social aspects", "Social aspects of Emotions", "Consciousness", "Self-consciousness (Sensitivity)", "Ego", "Physiology", "Self-consciousness (Awareness)", "PSYCHOLOGY", "FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS", "Death, Grief, Bereavement", "Social, group or collective psychology", "Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology", "The self, ego, identity, personality"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"The author provides here a scholarly, yet accessible, account of research into blushing, relating it to embarrassment, shame and shyness, and proposing an explanation in terms of self-consciousness and exposure of the self. He reviews what is known about the physiology of the blush, considers evidence for its universality, and evaluates explanations in terms of a nonverbal signal of apology and a reaction to unwanted social attention. He goes on to critically assess interventions and treatments for the fear of blushing.\"--Jacket."}, "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T03:20:12.567106"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-07-07T01:36:33.743108"}}