Embarrassment in the Context of Negative Emotions and Its Effects on Information Processing

Title

Embarrassment in the Context of Negative Emotions and Its Effects on Information Processing

Creator

Gumber M.; Sharma A.; Joseph S.D.

Description

Negative emotions are feelings of sadness arising out of negative evaluation of oneself by self or others. Embarrassment is characterized as a negative emotion which is experienced as a threat to ones social identity. This chapter discusses the differences between embarrassment and related negative emotions, namely shame, guilt and humiliation and its effects on information processing. Around 45 articles have been reviewed in the process, which were selected based on their relation to either negative emotions in general or specifically to one or more of them. The study uses the interactional (bio-psycho-social) approach to determine the antecedents and consequences of experiencing embarrassment and how it affects information processing. It further explores gender differences in the experience of negative emotions. Given that the existing evidence reveals many contradictory findings in the experience of negative emotions, this chapter conceptualizes certain factors that might influence this experience. It also provides some reasons for variations in experience of embarrassment and related negative emotions, on the basis of gender. This chapter concludes by proposing the complexity of embarrassment as an emotion and a conceptual framework of a continuum on which the experiences of embarrassment may lie and the factors determining the placement of these experiences with their cognitive implications. The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020, Corrected Publication 2020.

Source

Emotion and Information Processing: A Practical approach, pp. 125-143.

Date

2020-01-01

Publisher

Springer International Publishing

Subject

Embarrassment; Guilt; Humiliation; Information processing; Negative emotion; Shame

Coverage

Gumber M., CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India; Sharma A., CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India; Joseph S.D., SRM University, Amaravati, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISBN: 978-303048849-9; 978-303048848-2

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Book chapter

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48849-9_8

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85148836547&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-030-48849-9_8&partnerID=40&md5=5e75f0a6b536068a3abf847257b705d8