You may have blushed at times when you were embarrassed, humiliated, discouraged, or mortified. Although blushing is an innately patterned emotional response, it can be conceived most simply as a ...

BLUSHING is one of the few actions we try to hide. Be it due to shyness, embarrassment or shame - when your face turns red, you would want to try to cover your face, wishing you were either thousands ...

What could be more embarrassing that performing badly at karaoke and having everyone see you? It’s a truly humiliating experience, and that’s why researchers recently used it to study the science of ...

A new collaboration between researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Chieti explores the neural substrates of blushing in a MRI ...

Blushing can be a sign of 'social anxiety' - inner worry affects your nervous system, which controls the blood vessels in your face, and makes them widen, which causes the appearance of blushing. But ...