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Why do we blush....ooowh gosh!
Sunday, September 23, 2012 | 8:22 PM | 0 Dancing Queen and Prince Says
I recently had very awkward experience and without knowing my face turned red and feels very sweaty... why laughing out my stupidity. friends telling me OMG your blushing your blushing... Even I try my very best to hide my shyness I cant because my face is showing that I'm in the spot, being embarrassed or being in my uncontrollable awkward moment. I really hate this kind of emotion or what ever it is. emotions. feelings, reaction or what. so what is BLUSHING and why? do we blush??? Blushing occurs when you are in a state of excitement, anger or embarrassment. Children and young people are more prone to blushing and some people easily and frequently blush when they are confronted by stressful situations. Unfortunately, the fear of blushing (erythrophobia) causes even more embarrassment and blushing. Blushing is not under your voluntary control as it is caused by the autonomic nervous system that controls the muscles of the blood vessels of your face. In an embarrassing situation your body releases adrenaline as part of the fight or flight response. This hormone triggers the blood vessels to dilate, and the increased blood flow in your cheeks makes your face red. Besides our emotional state, high temperatures, alcohol and certain illnesses and medications can also cause us to have flushed faces This empathy and social intelligence appears to develop in humans at an early age, around the time we enter school and we begin to engage in social situations with others . By studying the development of this social intelligence, psychologists have found that blushing from embarrassment develops alongside our consciousness of others. This lends further support to the notion that blushing has a purely social basis. If the philosopher Thomas Hobbes was correct in his description of early societies as being "nasty, brutish and short" [source: Hobbes], then blushing may have developed as a means for displaying genuine regret over an insult to someone else. Since we humans are animals, too, a glance at our neighbors on the Tree of Life shows us that insults can lead to violence. As a result, animals have developed ways of displaying apologetic signs to show others they're sorry for what they've done. Think about your dog rolling over after being caught digging in the yard. Exposing his or her belly to you shows you the dog is not challenging your anger at the situation -- it's a demonstration of contrition. For most people, it's pretty difficult to continue to feel anger toward the dog once he or she has rolled over. So blushing could be a way humans show their own contrition for bad social form.
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