awkward………
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Embarrassment and prosociality: http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~keltner/publications/FeinbergWillerKeltner2012.pdf
Empathetic Embarrassment:
http://www.npr.org/2014/07/19/332760081/the-opposite-of-schadenfreude-vicarious-embarrassment
http://healthland.time.com/2011/05/05/why-your-embarassment-causes-me-so-much-pain/
Cringe subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/cringe
awkward hug gifs: http://giphy.com/search/awkward-hug
Embarrassment: http://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/11/embarrassment.aspx
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (on YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/user/obscuresorrows
“Why Are We Morbidly Curious?” (related Vsauce video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbdMMI6ty0o
social rejection and physical pain: http://www.pnas.org/content/108/15/6270.full
Social awkwardness and genetics:
http://news.sciencemag.org/social-sciences/2009/11/socially-awkward-check-your-genes
http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Rs53576
Psychology experiments that test the breaking of social norms are called “breaching experiments”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaching_experiment
Stage Fright: http://business.uni.edu/buscomm/Presentations/stagefright.html
Oxytocin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxytocin
http://www.psyneuen-journal.com/article/S0306-4530(13)00211-4/abstract?cc=y
Oxytocin and fear/anxiety:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-07/nu-tlh072213.php
negativity bias: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias
more negative emotions than positive:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3156001/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/in-the-name-love/201007/are-negative-emotions-more-important-positive-emotions
Eleanor Roosevelt quote: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/26110-you-wouldn-t-worry-so-much-about-what-others-think-of
“in you 20s and 30s…” quote: http://www.ihhp.com/equotes/
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (on YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/user/obscuresorrows
“sonder” gif: http://i.imgur.com/zxBZ0vF.gif
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What is awkwardness?
Why is it good?
And who is
THE MAIN CHARACTER OF THE UNIVERSE
Why is awkwardness good? and who… is the main character of the Universe?
Me: I don't know, Me, everyone, God? Don't make such a sudden jump bruh! it's startling!
JOE BIDEN
All I've learned from this is I am probably a sociopath, but everyone else is too so it's ok.
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got 'em
Awkward
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What is awkeardness:
First, lets talk about speed of light
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This is where my depression started. Sonder, that’s it. Just keep existing
watching him made me feel awkward
Took a picture of the monitor while on Snapchat, took it from such an angle that his head looks like an alien's head XD
They should research on me.
so awkward ?
vsauce is actualy great and helps people getting trust in themself. thx vsauce
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I felt so awkward
This dude is a more enlightened Alton Brown. Combine him with Neil Degrassi Tyson and you get this dude.
i fucking love this video with all my heart do u understand how often i watch it
This is so insightful and makes me feel less weird. Thanks ?
I do think about others as much as they think and I remember those awkward encounters… I’m socially awkward and humans tend to annoy me…
In Soviet Russia, the laws of state are more powerful than the laws of science.
I forgot 3 peoples name at an event yesterday
0:19 goteem
i feel really awkward when i see an actor acting badly on tv
Awesome perspective man. I'll use this for sure!
If awkwardness is a science, then let's just say you're talking to the professor ?
B I G J O E B I D E N
Love this video i needed this
fist bumping someone and they do a explosion noise and you dont so a second later you do the explosion noise
when your seven and you go up to soccer practice and you arent quite sure if this is your group but your mom says go up to them it will be fine and then you go up and you dont go in line but you go hey guys like a very unintelligent boi and you dont feel awkward but your mom does then you feel awkward after years
playing minecraft back in 2018
I can answer that! The main character of the universe is a dipstick from Billericay named Bertie Slack!
So oxytocin helps reducing anxiety… but can cause more anxiety?
7:50 and 8:09
Why do my cheeks go insanely red and heat up a lot when I’m embarrassed and triggered so easily.