(THE CONVERSATION) Why can’t you stop watching TV shows, movies or viral videos that make you cringe? Cringe is the feeling you get when your boss cracks a joke in a meeting and no one laughs.

Cringe is the feeling you get when your boss cracks a joke in a meeting and no one laughs. It’s when your kid shoots a soccer ball and it misses the net by … a lot. It’s when you watch ...

Carly Drake, North Central College and Anuja Anil Pradhan, University of Southern Denmark (THE CONVERSATION) Why can’t you stop watching TV shows, movies or viral videos that make you cringe?

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Cringe is the feeling you get when your boss cracks a joke in a meeting and no one ...

Though we’re not sure who uttered the original bad pickup line (my bets are on Julius Caesar to Cleopatra), we’re pretty sure they’ve been a thing since the beginning of time. Somehow, along ...