GYre0ePJhZ Posted July 17, 2014 Posted July 17, 2014 Recent scientific article based on project utilizing EEG to measure intensity of humiliation. Snippets of food for thought from the Psychology Today article: Humiliation is defined as the emotion you feel when your status is lowered in front of others. Otten and Jonas ... concluded that the participants' responses to humiliation were both more negative than to anger, and more intense than to happiness. Taken to the extreme, instilling humiliation in a victim is a basic tactic of torturers, prison guards, and certain kinds of domestic abusers. Making sure your criticism or teaching is presented in a way that preserves the other person’s self-respect is the most basic way to avoid causing humiliation. I find it particularly interesting that humiliation was objectively found to be more intense than both happiness and more negative than anger. Links: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201407/the-one-emotion-really-hurts-your-brain http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17470919.2013.855660
Bipedal Primate Posted July 18, 2014 Posted July 18, 2014 Thank you for posting. This was very interesting.
DaVinci Posted July 18, 2014 Posted July 18, 2014 This might explain why humiliation finds it way into relationships with a large power disparity.
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