Tag: social

People who feel shame often feel guilty, but shame is distinct from guilt. Whereas guilt is the feeling of having done a bad thing, shame is the emotion of being bad, as a… more emotion Shame

The pain of embarrassment come from the gap between what the embarrassed person would like to believe about who they are, and what they have been seen to be.

We feel bashful when we’re on the verge of entering a social encounter, but we hold ourselves back, suspecting that meeting up with other people could be a big mistake.

It’s the emotion of anticipating someone else’s arrival to such an extent that it’s impossible not to peer through the window over and over again, just in case the expected visitor is almost there.

Sometimes it feels as if there isn’t enough air to breathe, and a panicky impulse to run begins to build. If you can’t get away, you might die, at least on the inside.

Emotions are subjective, but that doesn’t mean that they’re all self-centered. Human beings are social by nature. Because of that, we experience vicarious emotions, feelings about other people’s feelings. Mudita, for example, is… more emotion Fremdscham

Betrayal is the feeling that trust has been broken, but trust is never complete.

There are those who believe that it’s enough to identify the general emotion of anxiety and leave it at that. The problem with that generalist approach, however, is that it either assumes that… more emotion Butterflies in the Stomach

Viraag is the sensation of separation, but longing is the emotion that urges us to do something to end that separation.

When a person is feeling Mudita, their pleasure comes from the simple reflection of another person’s pleasure.