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Cringeworthy : a theory of awkwardness

Dahl, Melissa (author.).

Summary: Examines the ways that embracing socially awkward situations, even when they lead to embarrassment and self-conciousness, also provide the opportunity to test oneself and to recognize how people are connected to each other.

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  • ISBN: 9780735211636
  • ISBN: 0735211639
  • Physical Description: print
    xii, 286 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Portfolio/Penguin, [2018]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-276) and index.

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Subject: Embarrassment
Self-consciousness (Sensitivity)
Interpersonal relations

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Chapter 1 The Awkward Age, Part 1
1(18)
SECTION 1 Is That What I Look Like?
19(76)
Chapter 2 The Tribal Terror of Self-Awareness
21(27)
Chapter 3 Making Faces at Emotionally Intelligent Machines
48(21)
Chapter 4 Your Growing Edge
69(26)
SECTION 2 Is Everyone Staring at Me?
95(80)
Chapter 5 The Awkwardness Vortex
97(17)
Chapter 6 Dance Like No One's Watching, Because No One Is! Except When They Are
114(15)
Chapter 7 Your Flaws Are My Pain
129(22)
Chapter 8 Cringe Attacks
151(24)
SECTION 3 What Am I Supposed to Do Now?
175(80)
Chapter 9 Awkward Silences at the Office
177(22)
Chapter 10 Laughing at Imaginary Tumblers of Spilled Whiskey
199(29)
Chapter 11 The Awkward Age, Part 2
228(27)
Acknowledgments 255(2)
Notes 257(20)
Index 277

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