background: embarrassment and shame of visiting a doctor for a breast disease are among psychosocial factors that potentially contribute to delay in seeking medical advice. the purpose of this study is to review the published literature to determine if embarrassment regarding breast examination, diagnosis and treatment is associated with patient delay. methods: we searched pubmed with the follo...

The experience of embarrassment provides a highly salient cue for the human moral apparatus. Interestingly, people also experience embarrassment on behalf of others' inappropriate conditions. The perceiver's embarrassment often lacks an equivalent expression of embarrassment in the social counterpart. The present study examines this phenomenon and distinguishes neural circuits involved in embar...

BACKGROUND Embarrassment is a commonly described feature of essential tremor (ET) but has not been the focus of clinical research. OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence, identify susceptible patient groups, and quantify the therapeutic correlates of reported embarrassment. METHODS A total of 106 ET cases from a population-based sample and 349 ET cases from a clinical sample were asked, "Does...

The authors address 2 questions about embarrassment. First, Is embarrassment a distinct emotion? The evidence indicates that the antecedents, experience, and display of embarrassment, and to a limited extent its autonomic physiology, are distinct from shame, guilt, and amusement and share the dynamic, temporal characteristics of emotion. Second, What are the theoretical accounts of embarrassmen...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine colorectal cancer (CRC) screening embarrassment among men and women from three ethnic groups and the associated physician gender preference by patient gender and ethnicity. DESIGN Cross-sectional, purposive sampling. SETTING Urban community in Brooklyn, NY. SAMPLE A purpose-derived, convenience sample of 245 European American, African American, and immigrant ...

This article examines Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn’s film The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019) through lens of materialist feminist affect theories as they intersect with critical Indigeneity. It investigates how produces two parallel conflicting reactions in viewer, for whom “ugly feelings” (Ngai, 2007), such failure, embarrassment, pity or shame, compete an over...