Shyness and Embrarrassment: Perspectives from Social Psychology

ISBN-13: 9780521355292 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 376 str.

W. Crozier; W. Ray Crozier; Professor W. Ray Crozier

Opis

The contributors to this volume conceive of shyness and embarrassment as widely shared everyday experiences where social interaction is inhibited by self-consciousness and feelings of discomfort or foolishness. The dominant position within social psychology that these are aspects of social anxiety is attacked and defended. The role of unwelcome self-referential thoughts in the experience of the social emotions is a recurring theme throughout the book. This intuitively compelling notion is critically evaluated in terms of objective self-awareness, social anxiety, and impression management theories. A psychological account of these experiences is important for both theoretical and practical reasons: it advances the study of social processes and contributes to the remediation of extreme shyness and social anxiety. This is the first book that treats shyness and embarrassment together. Previous studies dealt with these experiences in isolation, even though they can be difficult to distinguish both in ordinary language and in psychological theory. The central assumption of this book is that understanding the "social emotions" will only be possible if they are considered together, if they are located within their social context, and if conceptual and empirical inquiries are closely related.

Recenzje

"...a valuable collection...." John P. Sabini, Contemporary Psychology

Spis treści

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 Harré; 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.