The Science of Awkwardness
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Published 2015-03-20
Sources and extra links below!
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music by youtube.com/JakeChudnow
Embarrassment and prosociality: ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~keltner/publications/Fe…
Empathetic Embarrassment:
www.npr.org/2014/07/19/332760081/the-opposite-of-s…
healthland.time.com/2011/05/05/why-your-embarassme…
Cringe subreddit: www.reddit.com/r/cringe
awkward hug gifs: giphy.com/search/awkward-hug
Embarrassment: www.apa.org/monitor/2012/11/embarrassment.aspx
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (on YouTube): youtube.com/user/obscuresorrows
“Why Are We Morbidly Curious?” (related Vsauce video): • Why Are We Morbidly Curious?
social rejection and physical pain: www.pnas.org/content/108/15/6270.full
Social awkwardness and genetics:
news.sciencemag.org/social-sciences/2009/11/social…
www.snpedia.com/index.php/Rs53576
Psychology experiments that test the breaking of social norms are called “breaching experiments”: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaching_experiment
Stage Fright: business.uni.edu/buscomm/Presentations/stagefright…
Oxytocin:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxytocin
www.psyneuen-journal.com/article/S0306-4530(13)002…
Oxytocin and fear/anxiety:
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-07/nu-tlh0722…
negativity bias: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias
more negative emotions than positive:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3156001/
www.psychologytoday.com/blog/in-the-name-love/2010…
Eleanor Roosevelt quote: www.goodreads.com/quotes/26110-you-wouldn-t-worry-…
“in you 20s and 30s…” quote: www.ihhp.com/equotes/
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (on YouTube): youtube.com/user/obscuresorrows
“sonder” gif: i.imgur.com/zxBZ0vF.gif
All Comments (21)
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"You can't wear pants made out of molten lead." Then what's the point of living
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"What is awkwardness, and who is the main character of the universe?" that escalated quickly.
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Michael is so charismatic even his attempt at awkwardness oozes charisma
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I love how all vsauce videos are effectively timeless. A 7-12 year old video doesn't feel old at all. Any other video stands out so much if it's like 3+ years old
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When you send a message in a group chat but no one replies
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“Nice weather today” “Thanks”
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I hate watching "cringey" things or shows that have embarrassing elements (a really common thing in many shows for kids and teens) because I always felt so dang embarrassed for the characters, so I usually just left the room. I think that's the main reason why I stopped watching shows entirely, I just couldn't deal with that awkwardness
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To me feeling awkward is the inability to face ourselves as imperfect. We seek perfection in order to be loved by others. That is the biggest error a human can make. We are absolutely imperfect and we need to learn to laugh at ourselves and voice it out to others. It's good medicine.
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"Nice weather today." "Thanks." "You're welcome."
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- "Bye" - "See you soon" Both proceed to walk the same way
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"it effects all of you." is he saying that it doesnt effect him and he is the main character of the universe
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1:00 ..or walking down an excessively long hallway and seeing someone you know on the other side. Then pretending to look around like you didn’t see them instead of stare at them the entire time you’re walking down that hallway. Gets me every damn time and it’s probably the most common thing that I find awkward.
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The camera man is definitely feeling awkward because he’s trying to walk away from Michael but he just keeps on approaching
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"not illegal to sneeze on a crowded bus" me: ahhhhh the good old days
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I'm gonna to watch this everytime I feel awkward.
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The thing with cringey awkward moments is we tend to only remember the things we did, not what others did. There’s only a handful of embarrassing things other people have done in my past that I remember. I’d imagine for most people it’s the same.
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How to make any Vsauce video We all eat food right? But how many atoms make up an infinite universe?
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" Be careful the food may be a little hot " " You too "
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I never thought I was awkward until it hit me like a freight train when all my best friends described me as awkward…I had to self reflect a lot that night…😫
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Great video. I have depression and anxiety. Sometimes „protagonist disease” gives me social anxiety, but when I’m depressed it changes to “sonder” and I’m feeling like the world with all those complex lives keeps turning around me while my life is just empty and irrelevant to others. I feel like my ideology is changing constantly from one extreme to another.
