@phdthesis{AlvarezLoeblich2018, author = {Alvarez Loeblich, Paul Sebastian}, title = {Not Here, Not Now!
 - Situational Appropriateness, Negative Affect and the Experience of (Remote) Embarrassment. A Process Model.}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-161354}, school = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Fremdsch{\"a}men or Fremdscham, a negative emotion which arises while observing someone behave inappropriately, comes to fame after the turn of the millennium in german speaking countries. There, they name it literally „other's shame" and it becomes obvious that this emotion happens most commonly while watching TV: reality shows, talent shows and bad comedies. The word even makes it to the dictionaries starting 2009, as its use increases unstoppably in everyday language, starting to get used in more and more situations, seemingly as a synonym of embarrassing or shameful. Still, a look in the emotional research on the subject returns exactly zero results as of 2011, leaving open the question as of what this emotion might be, and what it is not. The present wort aims at explaining not only the phenomenon of Fremdsch{\"a}men, but also the Emotion behind it - Embarrassment -, at a process level.}, subject = {Sozialpsychologie}, language = {en} }