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We crave the pleasure they supply -- the spectacle, the vicarious emotion, the sheer sensory overload -- even as we often regard it with puritanical suspicion.
But, even when a critic allows for the somewhat antique formulation of these arguments (as Storr goes on to do), there is still something about the vicarious emotion provoked by the figurative that must be explained away or excused.
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We need to study vicarious emotions further.
Learning to manage these vicarious emotions is an important aspect of the job.
If this is true, what we experience when we listen to sad music might be thought of as "vicarious emotions".
Instead, the vicarious emotions are free from the essential unpleasantness of their genuine counterparts, while still drawing force from the similarity between the two.
Kawakami calls these "vicarious emotions"—we experience secondhand sadness that somehow transforms into something lovely and positive.
However, following our prediction about the variety of situations eliciting vicarious embarrassment, self-reported vicarious emotions substantially outweighed the first-person embarrassment attributed to the protagonist.
In this line, the results of the present fMRI experiment show that in the absence of another's embarrassment observers generate vicarious emotions based on their own appraisals.
However, to our knowledge, this is the first study to show empirically that vicarious social emotions, here embarrassment, are related to individual differences in empathy without sharing an emotional condition (AU, IA, IU).
Furthermore, we uncovered the neural correlates of the social emotion vicarious embarrassment and highlighted its link to individual differences in trait empathy.
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