TY  - INPR
A1  - Paulus, Frieder M.
A1  - Müller-Pinzler, Laura
A1  - Meshi, Dar
A1  - Peng, Tai-Quan
A1  - Martinez Mateo, Marina
A1  - Krach, Sören
T1  - The politics of embarrassment
T2  - PsyArXiv Preprints
N2  - Within the last year, expressions of second-hand embarrassment on Twitter significantly increased. We show how this relates to the current situation in U.S. politics under Trump and provide two explanations for why people feel this way in response to his actions. First, compared to former politicians, Trump’s norm violations seem intentional. Second, intentional norm violations specifically threaten the social integrity of in-group members—in this case, U.S citizens. We theorize that these strong, frequent and widespread feelings of second-hand embarrassment motivate political actions to prevent further harm to individuals’ self-concept and protect their social integrity.
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/27607
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-276070
UR  - https://psyarxiv.com/pk4hc/
N1  - CC-By Attribution 4.0 International
N1  - Als endgültige Fassung erschienen in: Frontiers in communication, 4.2019, Art. 11, doi:10.3389/fcomm.2019.00011
VL  - 15
ER  -