Why is it embarrassing for others?
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Empathy is an amazing mechanism. In a sympathetic person, two neural zones are turned on in the head at once. The first takes you into the thinking of another person. The second creates a neural map of this state. As a result, we imagine ourselves in someone else's body.
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When a speaker forgets the words of a speech in front of a hundred eyes, we feel discomfort with him. That's how empathy works. The brain automatically turns on the emotion that, in theory, a person should experience in an awkward situation. But sometimes we don't even need to witness someone's oversight with our own eyes. And we experience what the people call “Spanish shame”: someone else does stupidity, but we are ashamed.
Scientists have given this phenomenon another name - indirect embarrassment.
