What is the reason for such a crippling reaction to uncomfortable social interactions?
EDIT: Thank for the replies so far, I am more wondering from an animal behaviour perspective. Starting to get the sense it is a form of social preservation because you can dissociate yourself from the bad thing.
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Humans are intensely social and we tend to mirror the emotions of who we’re observing. Happy people make you feel happy, angry people make you feel angry, seeing someone get hit in the balls makes everyone around wince and so on.
So seeing someone get embarrassed causes second hand embarrassment.
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