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embarrassment (head and eyes down);
shame/embarrassment plus a blush;
neutral; or neutral with a blush. Then
they were asked to rate how sympathetic
and trustworthy the transgressors
were.
It turned out that the offenders who
blushed were judged a lot more positively
than those who didn’t. This was
because the blush signified concern for
others. As Dacher Keltner, a psychologist
at the University of California,
Berkeley, who specializes in positive
emotions, put it to the New York Times,
“A blush comes online in two or three
seconds and says, ‘I care; I know I violated
the social contract.’ ”
In fact, the very thing that many
high-reactives hate most about blushing—its
uncontrollability—is what
makes it so socially useful. “Because it
is impossible to control the blush
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