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Humans feel secondhand embarrassment because the brain empathizes… and then panics for your reputation.

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Secondhand embarrassment, or vicarious embarrassment, is real and involves empathy-related brain regions. The panic about your reputation is a joke.

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Humans feel secondhand embarrassment because the brain empathizes… and then panics for your reputation. | SmartAss Facts