Shyness and Embarrassment
Shyness and Embarrassment
In this 1990 volume leading international researchers draw upon a variety of perspectives on the study of shyness and embarrassment, shame, blushing and self-consciousness. The contributors conceive of shyness and embarrassment as widely shared everyday experiences in which the desired routine flow of social interaction is inhibited by self-consciousness and feelings of discomfort or foolishness. The dominant position within social psychology - that these are aspects of social anxiety - is both attacked and defended. The role of unwelcome self-referential thoughts in the experience of the social emotions is critically evaluated in terms of objective self-awareness, social anxiety, and impression management theories. This engaging volume will appeal to all of those interested in psychology - particularly in personality theory, social and clinical psychology, and the study of the self - and to students and teachers of communication studies and related disciplines.
Product details
April 2011Paperback
9780521172196
376 pages
229 × 152 × 21 mm
0.55kg
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction W. Ray Crozier
- Part I. Theoretical Issues in the Study of Shyness and Embarrassment:
- 1. Social psychological perspectives on shyness,embarrassment and shame W. Ray Crozier
- 2. Shyness and embarrassment in psychological theory and ordinary language Peter R. Harris
- 3. The expression of shyness and embarrassment Jens Asendorff
- 4. The impact of focus of attention and affect on social behaviour Frederick X. Gibbons
- 5. The evolution and manifestation of social anxiety Paul Gilbert and Peter Trower
- Part II. An Emphasis Upon Embarrassment:
- 6. Embarrassment: a conceptual analysis Rom Harré
- 7. Embarrassment and blushing: a component-process model, some initial descriptive and cross-cultural data Robert J. Edelmann
- 8. Blushing as a discourse: was Darwin wrong? Cristiano Castelfranchi and Isabella Poggi
- Part III. An Emphasis Upon Shyness:
- 9. A definition of shyness and its implications for clinical practice Henk T. Van Der Molen
- 10. Shyness and self-presentation James A. Shepperd and Robert M. Arkin
- 11. Shyness as a personality trait Jonathan M. Cheek and Stephen R. Briggs
- 12. Social anxiety, personality, and the self: clinical research and practice Lorne M. Hartman and Patricia A. Cleland
- Name index
- Subject index.
