What makes us feel embarrassed, like biologically?
In: Biology
can’t give you a neurological or genetic-specific answer, but emotions like embarrassment evolved because we are highly social and cognitive creatures, and even other social animals, like our primate cousins, can experience embarrassment. Humans start learning really early through parents and other peers and mold emotions like embarrassment based on the feedback they receive (and genetics obviously play a big part in which knobs get turned the easiest, and features like attractiveness and intelligence play a part in how others give you feedback). Getting a good read on your kin and neighbors was and is a huge driving force in our evolution, so emotions like embarrassment can get very complex and confusing in us.
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