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    Guilt, Embarrassment, and Global Character Traits Associated with Helping.Christian Miller - 2011 - In Thom Brooks (ed.), New Waves in Ethics. Palgrave-Macmillan.
    The first section of this paper briefly summarizes my positive view of global helping traits. The remaining sections then develop the view in two new directions by examining the relationship between guilt, embarrassment, and helping behavior. It turns out that guilt and embarrassment reliably and cross-situationally enhance helping behavior, but in such a way that is incompatible with the nature of compassion as traditionally understood.
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    (1 other version)Shame, Embarrassment, and Guilt.P. M. S. Hacker - 1976 - In Robert C. Solomon (ed.), The Passions. The Myth and Nature of Human Emotions. Notre Dame, Ind.: Doubleday. pp. 152–182.
    The distinction between shame cultures and guilt cultures is due to the anthropologist Ruth Benedict. The moral education of the youth in a shame culture will involve a multitude of prescriptions determining how to conduct oneself. Heroic societies with a closed aristocratic warrior class are typically shame cultures. The form of the dominant norms of a guilt culture is the imperative or dominative tense, which determines what one is obligated to do. This is the typical form of the obligation‐imposing commandments (...)
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    Embarrassing Product, Image Type, and Personal Pronoun: The Mediating Effect of Body Imagery.Shenghong Ye, Haoyun Yan, Zhengyu Lin & Zan Huang - 2022 - Frontiers in Psychology 12.
    Consumers often feel embarrassed when buying products like condoms, hemorrhoid cream, and beriberi cream in crowded pharmacies. There is an interesting phenomenon in life: Some beriberi creams use the images of a “real foot”, while others use the images of a “cartoon foot.” Imagine if a young woman needed to go to a retail store for beriberi cream that would embarrass her, she would choose a “real foot image” or a “cartoon foot image” beriberi cream? It has been shown that (...)
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    Shame, Embarrassment, and the Subjectivity Requirement.Erick J. Ramirez - 2018 - European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 14 (1):97-114.
    Reactive theories of responsibility see moral accountability as grounded on the capacity for feeling reactive-attitudes. I respond to a recent argument gaining ground in this tradition that excludes psychopaths from accountability. The argument relies on what Paul Russell has called the 'subjectivity requirement'. On this view, the capacity to feel and direct reactive-attitudes at oneself is a necessary condition for responsibility. I argue that even if moral attitudes like guilt are impossible for psychopaths to deploy, that psychopaths, especially the "successful" (...)
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  5. Neo-Fregeanism: An Embarrassment of Riches.Alan Weir - 2003 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 44 (1):13-48.
    Neo-Fregeans argue that substantial mathematics can be derived from a priori abstraction principles, Hume's Principle connecting numerical identities with one:one correspondences being a prominent example. The embarrassment of riches objection is that there is a plurality of consistent but pairwise inconsistent abstraction principles, thus not all consistent abstractions can be true. This paper considers and criticizes various further criteria on acceptable abstractions proposed by Wright settling on another one—stability—as the best bet for neo-Fregeans. However, an analogue of the (...) of riches objection resurfaces in the metatheory and I conclude by arguing that the neo-Fregean program, at least insofar as it includes a platonistic ontology, is fatally wounded by it. (shrink)
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    An embarrassment of riches : modeling social preferences in ultimatum games.Cristina Bicchieri & Jiji Zhang - unknown
    Experimental results in Ultimatum, Trust and Social Dilemma games have been interpreted as showing that individuals are, by and large, not driven by selfish motives. But we do not need experiments to know that. In our view, what the experiments show is that the typical economic auxiliary hypothesis of non-tuism should not be generalized to other contexts. Indeed, we know that when the experimental situation is framed as a market interaction, participants will be more inclined to keep more money, share (...)
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    Embarrassment and Self-Esteem.Béla Szabados - 1990 - Journal of Philosophical Research 15:341-349.
    Emotions are in as a philosophical topic. Yet the recent literature is bent on grand theorizing rather than attempting to explore particular emotions and their roles in our lives. In this paper, I aim to remedy this situation a little by exploring the emotion of embarrassment. First, I critically examine R.C. Solomon’s conceptual sketch and try to distinguish “embarrassment” from “shame”, “humiliation” and “being amused”. Secondly, I argue that “private embarrassment” is a coherent and useful idea and (...)
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    An Embarrassment of Theories.Bruce Katz - 2013 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 20 (5-6):5-6.
    The sheer number of theories of consciousness, an abundance that may be unprecedented in the history of science, suggests a profound problem in this domain. This paper attempts to pinpoint the source of the difficulty, beyond the obvious complications associated with explaining the presence of mind in a world of matter. In particular, the argument is put forth that consciousness, when viewed as a binary category with respect to state or content, will of necessity engender compatibility with any number of (...)
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    The Embarrassment of Blood.Laura Nasrallah - 2011 - In Jennifer Wright Knust & Zsuzsanna Várhelyi (eds.), Ancient Mediterranean Sacrifice. Oup Usa. pp. 142.
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  10. An Embarrassing Misrepresentation.Gerd Lüdemann - 2007 - Free Inquiry 27:63.
     
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  11. Self-Esteem, Pride, Embarrassment, and Shyness.Anna Bortolan - 1920 - In Thomas Szanto & Hilge Landweer (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Emotion. New York, NY: Routledge.
    Extensively investigated in the field of psychology, psychiatry, education, and social policy, self-esteem has been comparatively under-researched in philosophy. However, a number of theories and notions relevant to the understanding of self-esteem and related experiences have been put forward in both classical and contemporary phenomenology of emotion. Drawing upon this body of research, in this chapter I will present a phenomenological account of self-esteem. First, I will suggest that this is best understood as a particular kind of background affective orientation, (...)
     
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    Embarrassment: Actual vs. typical cases, classical vs. prototypical representations.W. Gerrod Parrott & Stefanie F. Smith - 1991 - Cognition and Emotion 5 (5-6):467-488.
  13. Embarrassment: A philosophical analysis.Luke Purshouse - 2001 - Philosophy 76 (4):515-540.
    This paper considers the sorts of evaluations that underlie the emotion of embarrassment, by questioning what unifies the various kinds of situations in which this emotion typically arises. It examines the difference between embarrassment and shame, and then addresses problems with the accounts of embarrassment proposed by previous authors, in particular Solomon, Taylor and Goffman. It proposes a new model, on which the emotion involves viewing an interpersonal situation, in which you are involved, as containing an exposure (...)
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    Embarrassment.Yotam Benziman - 2020 - Journal of Value Inquiry 54 (1):77-89.
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  15. Embarrassment.S. M. Breugelmans - 2009 - In David Sander & Klaus Scherer (eds.), Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences. Oxford University Press. pp. 138--139.
     
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  16. The embarrassment of meeting : Burroughs, Beckett, Proust (and Deleuze).Mary Bryden - 2009 - In Mary Bryden & Margaret Topping (eds.), Beckett's Proust/Deleuze's Proust. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
     
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    Embarrassment's effect on facial processing.Ryan S. Darby & Christine R. Harris - 2010 - Cognition and Emotion 24 (7):1250-1258.
  18. Model Diversity and the Embarrassment of Riches.Walter Veit - unknown
    In a recent special issue dedicated to Dani Rodrik’s (2015) influential monograph Economics Rules, Grüne-Yanoff and Marchionni (2018) raise a potentially damning problem for Rodrik’s suggestion that progress in economics should be understood and measured laterally, by a continuous expansion of new models. They argue that this could lead to an “embarrassment of riches”, i.e. the rapid expansion of our model library to such an extent that we become unable to choose between the available models, and thus needs to (...)
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    The Embarrassing Problem of Eroticism.Henryk Benisz - 2017 - Nowa Krytyka 38:197-215.
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  20. Dialectic as "Philosophical Embarrassment": Heidegger's Critique of Plato's Method.Francisco Gonzalez - 2002 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 40 (3):361-389.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Dialectic as "Philosophical Embarrassment":Heidegger's Critique of Plato's MethodFrancisco Gonzalez (bio)Philosophie ist ein Ringen um die Methode.(GA58, 228)Hans-Georg Gadamer has expressed the following debt to the thought of Martin Heidegger: "The philosophical stimuli I received from Heidegger led me more and more into the realm of dialectic, Plato's as well as Hegel's."1 It is therefore surprising to discover that Heidegger himself did not see his thought as leading him (...)
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    Embarrassment: A dramaturgic account.Maury Silver, John Sabini, W. Gerrod Parrott & Maury Silver - 1987 - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 17 (1):47–61.
  22. Perceiving and responding to embarrassing predicaments across languages: Cultural influences on the mental lexicon.Jyotsna Vaid, Hyun Choi, Hsin-Chin Chen & Michael Friedman - 2008 - Mental Lexicon 3 (1):121-147.
    The experience of embarrassment was explored in two experiments comparing monolingual and bilingual speakers from cultures varying in the degree of elabo- ration of the embarrassment lexicon. In Experiment 1, narratives in English or Korean depicting three types of embarrassing predicaments were to be rated on their embarrassability and humorousness by Korean-English bilinguals, Korean monolinguals, and Euro-American monolinguals. All groups judged certain predicaments (involving social gaffes) to be the most embarrassing. However, significant group and language differences occurred in (...)
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  23. An Embarrassment for Double-Halfers.Michael G. Titelbaum - 2012 - Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 1 (2):146-151.
    “Double-halfers” think that throughout the Sleeping Beauty Problem, Beauty should keep her credence that a fair coin flip came up heads equal to 1/2. I introduce a new wrinkle to the problem that shows even double-halfers can't keep Beauty's credences equal to the objective chances for all coin-flip propositions. This leaves no way to deny that self-locating information generates an unexpected kind of inadmissible evidence.
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  24. The embarrassment of being human: a critical essay on the new materialisms and modernity in an age of crisis.Benjamin Boysen - 2025 - New York, NY: Routledge.
    With the message that everything in a sense is alive, thus allowing us to join forces with new politico-ethical communities stretching across human and nonhuman realms, the new materialisms have captivated the minds of many academics, artists, and intellectuals by stressing that it is time to return to a premodern mindset and discard modernity and its concepts of secularization, autonomy, and finitude. The Embarrassment of Being Human not only demonstrates how these magical materialisms are beset by grave theoretical and (...)
     
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    An embarrassment of riches in nascent neurolinguistics.Terry Halwes - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (3):467-468.
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    An embarrassing question about reproduction.John Haldane - 1992 - Philosophical Psychology 5 (4):427-431.
    Standard objections to dualism focus on problems of individuation: what, in the absence of matter, serves to diversify immaterial items? and interaction: how can material and immaterial elements causally affect one another? Given certain ways of conceiving mental phenomena and causation, it is not obvious that one cannot reply to these objections. However, a different kind of difficulty comes into view when one considers the question of the origin of the mental. Here attention is directed upon the case of intentionality. (...)
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  27. Privacy, Embarrassment and social power: British sitcom.Frances Gray - 2005 - In Sharon Lockyer & Michael Pickering (eds.), Beyond a joke: the limits of humour. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan. pp. 146--161.
     
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  28. Darwin's Phenomenological Embarrassment and Freud's Solution.Erling Eng - 1983 - Analecta Husserliana 15:231.
     
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    Embarrassment and Erving Goffman's idea of human nature.Michael Schudson - 1984 - Theory and Society 13 (5):633-648.
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    Self-Focused Emotions and Ethical Decision-Making: Comparing the Effects of Regulated and Unregulated Guilt, Shame, and Embarrassment.Cory Higgs, Tristan McIntosh, Shane Connelly & Michael Mumford - 2020 - Science and Engineering Ethics 26 (1):27-63.
    Research has examined various cognitive processes underlying ethical decision-making, and has recently begun to focus on the differential effects of specific emotions. The present study examines three self-focused moral emotions and their influence on ethical decision-making: guilt, shame, and embarrassment. Given the potential of these discrete emotions to exert positive or negative effects in decision-making contexts, we also examined their effects on ethical decisions after a cognitive reappraisal emotion regulation intervention. Participants in the study were presented with an ethical (...)
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    Differentiating Shame from Embarrassment.W. Ray Crozier - 2014 - Emotion Review 6 (3):269-276.
    Questions about the relation between shame and embarrassment are often posed in discussion of emotion but have rarely been examined at length. In this study I assemble and examine distinctions that have been proposed in the literature with the aim of identifying the criteria that have been used to differentiate shame and embarrassment. Relevant empirical studies are also reviewed. Despite the attention paid to the question of the difference between shame and embarrassment consensus on differentiating criteria has (...)
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    Interaction and its Failures: An Approach Through Embarrassment and Shame.Hélène Maire, Rawan Charafeddine & Jean-Baptiste van der Henst - 2022 - Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Philosophia:67-81.
    The present study is a theoretical and methodological proposal rooted in the field of social developmental psychology and describes three objectives. First, it aims to show how transgressive situations are conducive to study of social norms governing interactions. Second, the similarities and differences between two emotions, namely shame and embarrassment, are outlined in order to better understand how their respective measures can highlight social norms in interactions. Third, we illustrate our proposal to study social norms through emotional reactions by (...)
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    Embarrassment: A window on the self.Mary K. Babcock - 1988 - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 18 (4):459–483.
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    Cringe Criticism: On Embarrassment and Tori Amos.Nick Salvato - 2013 - Critical Inquiry 39 (4):676-702.
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    Metaphors for Embarrassment and Stories of Exposure: The Not‐So‐Egocentric Self in American Culture.Dorothy Holland & Andrew Kipnis - 1994 - Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 22 (3):316-342.
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    Embarrassment and Civilization: On Some Similarities and Differences in the Work of Goffman and Elias.Helmut Kuzmics - 1991 - Theory, Culture and Society 8 (2):1-30.
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    Facial blushing influences perceived embarrassment and related social functional evaluations.Christopher A. Thorstenson, Adam D. Pazda & Stephanie Lichtenfeld - 2019 - Cognition and Emotion 34 (3):413-426.
    Facial blushing involves a reddening of the face elicited in situations involving unwanted social attention. Such situations include being caught committing a social transgression, which is typical...
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  38. No Double-Halfer Embarrassment: A Reply to Titelbaum.Joel Pust - 2023 - Analytic Philosophy 64 (3):346-354.
    “Double-halfers” think that throughout the Sleeping Beauty Scenario, Beauty ought to maintain a credence of 1/2 in the proposition that the fair coin toss governing the experimental protocol comes up heads. Titelbaum (2012) introduces a novel variation on the standard scenario, one involving an additional coin toss, and claims that the double-halfer is committed to the absurd and embarrassing result that Beauty’s credence in an indexical proposition concerning the outcome of a future fair coin toss is not 1/2. I argue (...)
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  39. Popular music and heritage embarrassment in Brazil.Carlos Sandroni - 2024 - In Chiara Bortolotto & Ahmed Skounti (eds.), Intangible cultural heritage and sustainable development: inside a UNESCO Convention. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
     
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    Humour and Embarrassment.Michael Billig - 2001 - Theory, Culture and Society 18 (5):23-43.
    This article suggests that there are intrinsic links between humour and embarrassment and that both are crucial for the maintenance of social life. Goffman and others have claimed that embarrassment plays a key role in the maintenance of social order. However, it is argued that Goffman overlooked the role of ridicule in embarrassment. In consequence, he formulated a `nice-guy' theory of embarrassment, suggesting that onlookers empathize with the embarrassment of others and seek to diminish that (...)
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  41. Rationality, argumentation and embarrassment: A study of four logical alternatives (catuṣkoṭi) in buddhist logic.V. K. Bharadwaja - 1984 - Philosophy East and West 34 (3):303-319.
  42. How to Defeat Wüthrich’s Abysmal Embarrassment Argument against Space-Time Structuralism.F. A. Muller - 2011 - Philosophy of Science 78 (5):1046-1057.
    In his 2009 PSA Recent Ph.D. Award winning contribution to the bi-annual PSA Conference at Pittsburgh in 2008, C. Wu ̈thrich mounted an argument against struc- turalism about space-time in the context of the General Theory of Relativity, to the effect that structuralists cannot discern space-time points. An “abysmal embarrass- ment” for the structuralist, Wu ̈thrich judged. Wu ̈thrich’s characterisation of space-time structuralism is however incorrect. We demonstrate how, on the basis of a correct char- acterisation of space-time structuralism, it (...)
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    Universities without embarrassment.Stephen Burwood - 2003 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 20 (3):297–301.
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    Inspiring imagination – embarrassing analogies: coping with the causes of cytoplasmic streaming.Ariane Dröscher - 2023 - Intellectual History Review 33 (4):703-725.
    In 1817, the German botanist Ludolph Christian Treviranus (1779–1864), while working on cytoplasmic streaming, exclaimed “What a matter for new observations and what an expectation for a more profo...
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    A Non-Embarrassing Account of the Modal Functions of Judgment.Timothy Rosenkoetter - 2013 - In Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses. Boston: de Gruyter. pp. 383-442.
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  46. Speciesism and tribalism: Embarrassing origins.François Jaquet - 2022 - Philosophical Studies 179 (3):933-954.
    Animal ethicists have been debating the morality of speciesism for over forty years. Despite rather persuasive arguments against this form of discrimination, many philosophers continue to assign humans a higher moral status than nonhuman animals. The primary source of evidence for this position is our intuition that humans’ interests matter more than the similar interests of other animals. And it must be acknowledged that this intuition is both powerful and widespread. But should we trust it for all that? The present (...)
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    Client taint: The embarrassment of Rudolph Giuliani.H. Richard Uviller - 1990 - Criminal Justice Ethics 9 (1):3-10.
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    The hemopoietic regulators – an embarrassment of riches.Donald Metcalf - 1992 - Bioessays 14 (12):799-805.
    A large, and growing, group of glycoprotein regulators is now recognized to control the proliferation, maturation and functional activity of the eight major families of blood cells. Each hemopoietic regulator is the product of multiple cell types and there is a puzzling redundancy of regulators able to stimulate each subfamily of hemopoietic cells. Each regulator is polyfunctional but it remains unclear how a single type of activated receptor is able to initiate the diverse cellular responses induced.
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    Who is Embarrassed by What?John Sabini, Michael Siepmann, Julia Stein & Marcia Meyerowitz - 2000 - Cognition and Emotion 14 (2):213-240.
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    Cicero's Strategy of Embarrassment in the Speech for Plancius.Christopher P. Craig - 1990 - American Journal of Philology 111 (1).
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