The politics of embarrassment
- 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.
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| Author: | Frieder M. Paulus, Laura Müller-Pinzler, Dar Meshi, Tai-Quan Peng, Marina Martinez Mateo, Sören Krach |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-276070 |
| URL: | https://psyarxiv.com/pk4hc/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/PK4HC |
| Parent Title (German): | PsyArXiv Preprints |
| Document Type: | Preprint |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2017 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2017/10/09 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2017/10/29 |
| Volume: | 15 |
| Note: | CC-By Attribution 4.0 International |
| Note: | Als endgültige Fassung erschienen in: Frontiers in communication, 4.2019, Art. 11, doi:10.3389/fcomm.2019.00011 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 424198770 |
| Institutes: | Philosophie und Geschichtswissenschaften / Philosophie |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
| 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft | |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
