Intersectionality Between Embarrassability And Empathetic Adress

Everyone has experienced embarrassment at some point during their lifetime. It’s that awful feeling of humiliation, shame, and abashment when your self-esteem is negatively impacted. While embarrassment is a temporary state of being, embarrassability is a personality trait that measures how easily one becomes embarrassed. Miller (1987) studied the intersectionality between embarrassability and empathy, which is a personality trait defined by the ability to feel others’ emotions. Miller defined the combination of these traits as empathetic embarrassability, or the understanding and sharing other’s feelings of embarrassment.
One of Miller’s (1987) studies explored how differing levels of embarrassability impacted empathetic embarrassment. In