What really helps? Divergent implications of talking to someone with an empathic mindset versus similar experience for shame and self‐evaluation in the wake of an embarrassing event

What kinds of social interactions help individuals recover from an embarrassing experience? The present experiment examined the possibility that whereas individuals do not benefit from interacting with someone who is merely trying to understand and empathize, they do benefit from interacting with someone who has undergone the same experience and thus accurately understands their feelings. The ‘target’ member of 142 dyads performed an...