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Blushing
About: Blushing is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 275 publications have been published within this topic receiving 6383 citations. The topic is also known as: reddening.
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TL;DR: For example, this paper showed that blushing is a useful behaviour to measure self reflection in the presence of other people, most noticeable embarrassment, but is not a measure of all the other self-conscious emotions such as shame, guilt or pride.
Abstract: Introduction Until recently, the self-conscious emotions have been poorly studied. Little research on their meaning, how they develop, and how individual differences arises have been conducted, even though Charles Darwin discussed them in some detail as far back as his book, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals..Darwin’s observations were not followed up by neither psychoanalysis nor developmental psychopathology until about 40 years ago. In part, this was due to Freud’s focus on guilt and on the confusion between such self-conscious emotions as embarrassment, guilt and shame. In fact, Darwin’s observations and theorizing were not able to differentiate these different selfconscious emotions, in large part due to his measurement of the self-conscious emotions, where he used blushing behaviour. While blushing is a useful behaviour to measure, many people do not blush. Moreover, blushing is a measure of self reflection in the presence of other people, most noticeable embarrassment, but is not a measure of all the other self-conscious emotions such as shame, guilt or pride. While Darwin recognized the role of a person’s thoughts, especially around the emotion of embarrassment, he did not use cognitive capacities as a way to differentiate between them.
361 citations
TL;DR: Theoretical issues in the study of shyness and embarrassment have been discussed in this paper, with a focus on the impact of focus of attention and affect on social behavior and the evolution and manifestation of social anxiety.
Abstract: 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 Harre 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.
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Journal Article•
TL;DR: The results confirm the previous findings, that sympathetic nerves innervate the human body in similar dermatome fashion as the peripheral nervous system, and propose a new classification "Lin-Telaranta classification in sympathetic surgery".
Abstract: Background and Aims: The second sympathetic thoracic ganglion has long been regard ed as the most important structure in all sympathetic procedures for any indication, be it hand sweating, blushing, or social phobia Earlier, we had found an interesting new basis for the selection of more specific methods in individual disorders The aim of the present study was to either confirm the old theory or to bring forward a more appropri ate theory for sympathetic surgery to be used as a classified method Material and Methods: Altogether 193 patients were treated in Taiwan and 55 in Fin land according to the new selective principle Endoscopic sympathetic block of the sec ond thoracic ganglion (ESB 2) was used as a method for conflicted type of social phobia or blushing for 25 patients ESB 3 was used for facial sweating and blushing for 55 pa tients ESB 4 was used for hand and axillary sweating for 168 patients Reflex sweating was taken as the most important sign of unsuccessful surgery Results: All patients benefited of the procedure in their presenting symptonls Four of 25 cases in ESB 2 -group and three of 55 cases in ESB 3 -group had unacceptable reflex sweating No patient with reflex sweating was found in ESB 4 -group These results confirm our previous findings, that sympathetic nerves innervate the human body in similar dermatome fashion as the peripheral nervous system Accord ing to this, we organized the various sympathetic disorders into three main categories: those restricted within the head, like conflicted type social phobia and conflicted type blushing, to Group 1; those on the head and face, like sweating with or without blush ing, to Group 2; and those in the hands and underarms to Group 3 The principle of different surgical procedures for different disorders of the sympathetic system are pro posed: ESB 2 for Group 1, ESB 3 for Group 2, and ESB 4 for Group 3 disorders Conclusions: We call this new classification uLin-Telaranta classification" Not only the incidence of complication rates is lowered but also the side effects can be predicted by the Lin-Telaranta classification in sympathetic surgery
160 citations
TL;DR: The overall satisfaction rate is very good for palmarHyperhidrosis and facial blushing, not equally good but acceptable for facial hyperhidrosis, and the lower satisfaction rate in patients with axillaryhyperhidrosis makes this a questionable indication for ETS.
Abstract: Objective:
To study the outcome of endoscopic thoracic sympaticotomy (ETS) for palmar, axillary, facial hyperhidrosis and facial blushing
Subjects:
1152 patients, 59% women and 41% men
Intervention:
ETS was performed by transection of the sympathetic chain where it overlies the second and third rib The nerve was divided also over the fourth rib in patients with axillary hyperhidrosis Questionnaires were sent to all patients
Main outcome measures:
The effect of surgery was assessed by a 10 grad visual analogue scale (VAS) by the patients The results were divided into effect rate (the effect on the symptom) and overall satisfaction rate, taking into account any side effects and complications apart from the effect
Results:
The response rate was 90% The mean follow up time, effect rate and overall satisfaction rate were: 38 months for palmar hyperhidrosis, 99,4% and 87%; 26 months for axillary hyperhidrosis, 94,5% and 68%; 31 months for facial hyperhidrosis, 97% and 76%; 8 months for facial blushing, 96% and 85%
Conclusion:
ETS is a very effective procedure in palmar, axillary and facial hyperhidrosis and facial blushing The overall satisfaction rate is very good for palmar hyperhidrosis and facial blushing, not equally good but acceptable for facial hyperhidrosis The lower satisfaction rate in patients with axillary hyperhidrosis makes this a questionable indication for ETS Copyright © 1998 Taylor and Francis Ltd
149 citations
TL;DR: The authors investigated the connection between self-focused attention and self-consciousness on the one hand and blushing propensity, fear of blushing and frequency on the other hand, and found that blushing frequency was unrelated to public selfconsciousness and self focused attention.
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