Why Do We Do That?

7. Why do we blush?

Mar 14, 2025 · 14 min · Season 2 · Episode 14 · 13.9 MB
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Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi asks why we blush. Even Darwin was intrigued by blushing. He called it “the most peculiar and most human of all expression” but didn’t think it had a function. Dr Laith Al-Shawaf from the University of Colorado makes students do embarrassing things to understand why we blush and how blushing can make people like you more when you make a mistake.