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Thermal Physiology and Thermoregulation
Published in James Stewart Campbell, M. Nathaniel Mead, Human Medical Thermography, 2023
James Stewart Campbell, M. Nathaniel Mead
Blushing is a complex psychophysiological phenomenon manifesting as a reddening of the cheeks and forehead that can also extend to the ears, neck, and upper chest. Blushing is an involuntary vasodilation on being embarrassed or praised. Darwin devoted considerable attention to the blush, which he believed occurred when “thinking about what others think of us.”158
Perceived Sensitive Skin at Different Anatomical Sites
Published in Golara Honari, Rosa M. Andersen, Howard Maibach, Sensitive Skin Syndrome, 2017
Individuals with fair skin are more likely to have skin sensitivity. Willis et al. (13) found that individuals susceptible to blushing were more likely to have sensitive skin, as were individuals with atopy or other skin conditions such as rosacea and acne. A similar observation was reported by Kamide et al. (9) based on a survey conducted among 1500 individuals in Japan. Sensitive skin was more likely to be declared by individuals who flush easily and are susceptible to sunburn. In contrast, Jourdain et al. (60) conducted a survey among 811 women in the San Francisco area in 1998 and found no significant differences between the incidence of sensitive skin among ethnic groups (i.e., African Americans, Asians, Euro-Americans, and Hispanics).
Flushing and Blushing
Published in Frank C. Powell, Jonathan Wilkin, Rosacea: Diagnosis and Management, 2008
Frank C. Powell, Jonathan Wilkin
Blushing implies an episodic, sudden, transient, often blotchy, involuntary reddening of the face (and often the sides of the neck, and ears), which is precipitated by emotion or psychologic upset (shame, anger, embarrassment, guilt, pleasure, or anxiety). It has been suggested that displaying moral emotions via flushing serves important psychologic functions, but in some sensitive individuals, the mildest of emotions may trigger flushing, which may inhibit their normal social interactions.
Making Mountains into Molehills: A Lexicon-in-Process
Published in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2023
When I first began therapy, I hoped that we could cure my extreme blushing. My therapist said “blushing is a kind of contact.” As a gender/queer artist, my anxieties of reading and getting read/red can feel paranoid and defensive. At any moment, something internal and private might be externalized, made public against my will. And yet, is this not precisely what I am reenacting writing this? Is this a way of managing my shame, exposing myself again and again? I remain compelled by the fantasy that this time I will exert control over my body and its edges; that by describing or defining the terms of my existence, I will shore up something that otherwise feels precarious. The truth is that my audience will scan me, read me. My transness will be not enough or will it be too much, my smarty pants too dorky, too tight or too much sag in the ass. I will bleed out. Oversharing will be curative, no? the container and un-containability (Downey, 2019), blushing, bleeding, puking, pissing, leaking, frothing, throbbing hormonal, affect contagion, shifting shoreline, where I end and you begin, me and not me, not mine (Kristeva, 1982), gendered excess, shame on you, tragically “female” nature, pre/menstrual dysphoric disorder, digestive distress, the smell of being spoiled rotten, verbal diarrhea, TMI
Medically unexplained physical symptoms, misunderstood and wrongly treated? A semiotic perspective on chronic pain
Published in Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 2018
Kari Irene H. Busvold, Hilde Bondevik
A sign bears a message and must be interpreted, whether it is expressed in the external world (our surroundings) or the internal world (the body). The sign may be an expression of pain, a muscular or autonomic reaction, a fracture line in a bone, or loss of cartilage in a joint. Signs are produced and interpreted at all levels of human life, from cell to society. Blushing is both a reaction to something (i.e., another sign) in the autonomic nervous system, and a sign that is expressed in the external world. The sign tells of a biologically emotional state and will be observed and interpreted by individuals themselves as well as by their environment. Thus, signs are simultaneously natural and cultural.
Sexual Modesty in Sexual Expression and Experience: A Scoping Review, 2000 - 2021
Published in The Journal of Sex Research, 2022
J. Dennis Fortenberry, Devon J. Hensel
The role of images in sexting emphasizes the centrality of visual cues in human sexual attraction and response and suggests the possibility of an intersection of the social systems of sexual modesty and sexual neuropsychology. Key brain regions (e.g., parietal areas involved in attention to motivationally relevant stimuli) are associated with visual sexual stimuli (Mouras et al., 2003). Adults inspect pictures of nude bodies more thoroughly than pictures of clothed bodies, with initial gaze fixation on faces followed by viewing of chest and pelvic regions (Nummenmaa et al., 2012). Facial symmetry and body shape attractiveness assessments evoke different brain responses in the context of nude compared to clothed stimuli (Hietanen & Nummenmaa, 2011; Legrand et al., 2013). For example, varying body shapes by body mass index produces changes in visual processing areas of the brain, while changes in waist–hip ratio activate areas associated with reward processing and decision-making (Platek et al., 2010). Body maps of emotions show that shame is associated with increased activation in the facial and mid-chest regions (Nummenmaa et al., 2014). Coloration – reds in particular – have sexual interpretations endorsed across cultures and are subject to sexual modesty rules dictated by age, gender, and marital status (Niesta Kayser et al., 2016). Sexual modesty has a specific visual signal – blushing – that is a subjective and interpersonal cue to emotional states such as shame (Dijk et al., 2009; Drummond & Lim, 2000). None of this advanced neuropsychological research – often based in brain imaging or eye tracking technologies – explicitly varies contexts defined by sexual modesty. However, they suggest ways in which sexual modesty functions in response to body presentations, body shape, and visual sexual assessments.