Vicarious Embarrassment or “Fremdscham”: Overendorsement in Frontotemporal Dementia

• Published in: The journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 274 - 279
• Main Authors: Mendez, Mario F, Yerstein, Oleg, Jimenez, Elvira E
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Psychiatric Association 01.07.2020
• Subjects: Aged; Embarrassment; Female; Frontotemporal Dementia - physiopathology; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Self Concept; Self Report; Severity of Illness Index; Social Norms; Social Perception; Frontotemporal Dementia; Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD); Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia (bvFTD); Embarrassment

Objective:The experience of embarrassment signals violations in social norms, and impairment in this social emotion may underlie much of the social dysfunction in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). The authors investigated whether impaired self-awareness of embarrassment may disting...