The illusion of courage in social predictions: Underestimating the impact of fear of embarrassment on other people !

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Modeling the interplay between affect and deliberation. (2015, background): “Evidence that temporal proximity can influence risk behaviors comes from studies wherein people initially agree to do various embarrassing activities in exchange for payment, but then closer to the time when the activity has to be performed, change their minds (Van Boven et al., 2005).”
“Why didn’t you just ask?” Underestimating the discomfort of help-seeking (2010, background): “According to Van Boven, Loewenstein, and Dunning (2005), this is because people asked to judge another person’s behavior in a highly emotional situation must make not one, but two adjustments: one adjustment from ‘‘self in non-emotional state” to ‘‘self in emotional state,” and another from ‘‘self”…”
The Scarecrow and the Tin Man: The Vicissitudes of Human Sympathy and Caring (2007, background): “In one set of studies, focusing on embarrassment, Van Boven, Loewenstein, and Dunning (2005) found that people who themselves faced the prospect of an embarrassing performance better appreciated the motivational force of the embarrassment that others would experience doing the same performance than…”
An Inferred Valuation Method (2009, background): “Although our experiment did not involve any such learning or training, some intriguing results from Van Boven, Dunning, and Lowenstein (2000) speak to the ‘‘rationality’’ of inferred values.”