id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7132 Social emotions - Wikipedia .html text/html 2851 479 59 Social emotions are emotions that depend upon the thoughts, feelings or actions of other people, "as experienced, recalled, anticipated or imagined at first hand".[1][2] Examples are embarrassment, guilt, shame, jealousy, envy, elevation, empathy, and pride.[3] In contrast, basic emotions such as happiness and sadness only require the awareness of one's own physical state. A laboratory-based study by Cwir, Car, Walton, and Spencer (2011) showed that, when a participant felt a sense of social connectedness to a stranger (research confederate), the participant experienced similar emotional states and physiological responses to that of the stranger while observing the stranger perform a stressful task.[9] To investigate the function of social emotions in economic behaviors, researchers are interested in the differences in brain regions involved when participants are playing with, or think that they are playing with, another person as opposed to a computer. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7132.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7132.txt