Americans have been tweeting significantly more about embarrassment since Donald Trump became president, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Frontiers in Communication . Specifically, the study found that postings about embarrassment on the social media platform Twitter jumped 45 percent in the first year after President Trump took office. Yes, this may seem like a “duh” study — at least to anybody who spends any time on Twitter. But the findings are intriguing for what they may reveal about the nation’s psychological mood. “We found that people felt the need to share their emotions related to Donald Trump’s politics, and embarrassment was the emotion that most clearly described what people felt,” said study co-author Sören Krach , a social neuroscientist at the University of Lübeck in Germany, in a released statement . How the study was done For the study, Krach and his University of Lübeck colleagues joined forces with researchers at the University of Michi...
