Dr. Dacher Keltner
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first heard Apr 2026
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So it was fun research.
It meant a lot to me.
And he's right.
I mean, you know, Darwin early on wrote about the blush being a sign of your healthy character, your moral virtue almost.
And in non-human species, the facial reddening
is associated with physical robustness.
And then in humans we think of it as moral robustness, like, yeah, I care about stuff.
We did work early on, Bob Knight at Berkeley, orbital frontal patients, the orbital frontal cortex is in part where your ethical consideration takes place.
And if you have damage to that region of the brain through brain trauma, you fall off a motorcycle or fall off a ladder, you don't show embarrassment where you should and they feel...
creepy, if you will, or just like, hey, they're not playing by the rules.
So it's a very subtle thing.
Irving Goffman wrote a lot about it, the great sociologist.
Like, our embarrassment is telling people, like, I know what the rules are and I care about them.
I'm committed to them.
So your psychiatrist friend is right.
Yeah.
We documented that in the fraternity study that, you know, when you tease somebody and you're like, hey, man, do you see this guy's dance moves or you see this guy shoot free throw, whatever it is, you're just making light of human foible and all the funny things that we do.
And there's just this really subtle repair work where they're saying like,
I'm teasing you, but I know you got it, you know, and I'll support you.
And I agree.
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