The Science of Awkwardness

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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

コメント (21)
  • @naryosh_
    "You can't wear pants made out of molten lead." Then what's the point of living
  • 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
  • @Clankeh
    Michael is so charismatic even his attempt at awkwardness oozes charisma
  • "Nice weather today." "Thanks." "You're welcome."
  • "What is awkwardness, and who is the main character of the universe?" that escalated quickly.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • - "Bye" - "See you soon" Both proceed to walk the same way
  • The camera man is definitely feeling awkward because he’s trying to walk away from Michael but he just keeps on approaching
  • @declan99
    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.
  • 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…😫
  • When you send a message in a group chat but no one replies
  • @yeehaw142
    "It's not illegal to sneeze on a bus without covering your nose" 2020:
  • 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.
  • @SwampyTT
    "it effects all of you." is he saying that it doesnt effect him and he is the main character of the universe
  • “It’s not illegal to not cover a sneeze when on a crowded bus” 2020: hmmmm
  • @Iosima
    What is awkwardness? skip 5 seconds by accident Who is the main character of the universe?
  • 12:27 I think I first experienced “sonder” at around the age of 8. It’s good to have words for these things because then we can actually talk about them rather than having these curious nameless thoughts trapped in your brain unable to be communicated properly.
  • 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.