Fig. 1From: Social distance of bystanders affects people’s embarrassment via changing fear of negative evaluation and feelings of attachment securityEmbarrassment ratings as a function of social distance in the study 1. Participants reported the highest level of embarrassment when facing strangers (i.e., long social distance condition), the second-highest level when facing casual friends (i.e., medium social distance condition), and the lowest level when facing close friends (i.e., short social distance condition). Error bars indicate the standard error of the mean. ***p < .001. *p < .05Back to article page