Jawahar Surti’s Reviews > When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life > Status Update

..guilt is not the trigger for blushing. What’s the difference between the two self-conscious emotions that do trigger blushing, shame and embarrassment? Embarrassment is the response to the public breach of a social norm, like a blunder, or lapse of bodily control. Shame is the response to the public breach of a moral norm, like lying, cheating, being derelict in one’s duties, or hurting or neglecting a loved one.