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Schauer Thoughts

So What is Cringe Anyway??

Schauer Thoughts

Sarah Schauer & Studio71

Comedy, Education

4.8669 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Today we’re talking a leisurely stroll through the neuroscience of cringe! Behold the surprising sadness that awaits just beyond our cranial walls. Clear your calendar and your conscience and step into this week’s communal shower. Feel free to leave your dignity at the door. Resources: That’s Cringe: The Neuroscience Behind Embarrassment https://greymattersjournal.org/thats-cringe-the-neuroscience-behind-embarassment/  How Emotions Are Made - Lisa Feldman Barrett Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions - Batja Mesquita Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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brainers, middle brainers, anyone with a brain stem, pawns medulla, anyone, you know,

0:35.0

with, yeah, anyone with any lobes of any type.

0:39.2

But yeah, so today's episode is going to be a bit of a smattering of everything.

0:44.1

I was, well, I am outlining an episode on why we can feel, quote, unquote, the strap when Sappix used them.

0:53.9

And so some of you who are like the strap like feel

0:56.4

the strap like firearm no well um you can't feel it i assume like in your waistband but um

1:03.6

there's something that's this pressure um you know in just a general sense of awareness but uh no

1:10.2

it's a different phenomenon. And so while I

1:13.3

was outlining that, these are just some separate things I was looking into. Because interestingly,

1:19.2

people who feel the sensation of the strap oftentimes, there's like several components to it,

1:26.2

but it seems like they're very open to hypnotic suggestion.

1:32.9

And so like, that's not to say like, oh, you're being hypnotized.

1:36.2

I mean, it's just getting into a sort of, you know, way of perceiving and suggestibility and like, you know, things that you'd like to do or adapt, right?

1:45.2

And so I kind of went through and I just kind of wanted to research like hypnotism and like, what's the neuroscience behind that?

1:51.9

It's actually pretty interesting. And then I also separately was thinking about like what it means to be cringe.

1:57.9

Now cringe and hypnosis and feeling all this stuff are they're not related. I just was separately was looking into cringe and hypnosis. And that's what we're

2:06.7

going to be talking about. You know, what is cringe? What is hypnosis? And then that's going to be,

2:11.2

I guess, a primer for feeling the strap, feeling the sensation. Speaking of, this is going to be

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