3,600 responses from 600 respondents to 6 items.
One of 14 tables from the same source; this one measures Embarrassment Perception. The others are listed under Related tables.
| Description | Embarrassment Perception |
|---|---|
| Reference | Goksel, S., Sezer, O., & Berman, J. Z. (2026). Transcending embarrassment: On the reputational benefits of laughing at yourself.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 130(6), 1078–1101. |
| DOI | 10.1037/pspa0000477 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Source data | https://osf.io/jwdq6/overview |
| Responses | 3,600 |
|---|---|
| Respondents | 600 |
| Items | 6 |
| Response categories | 7 |
| Responses per respondent | 6 |
| Responses per item | 600 |
| Density | 1 |
| Longitudinal | FALSE |
| age range | Adult (18+) |
|---|---|
| sample | Internet-based |
| construct type | Affective/mental health |
| measurement tool | Survey/questionnaire |
| item format | Likert Scale/selected response |
| primary language(s) | eng |
| construct name | Embarrassment Perception |
This table has item text in the IRW: the wording administered to respondents, not just the response codes.
| Instrument | Perceived required and actual embarrassment (Goksel, Sezer & Berman, 2026, Study 5) |
|---|---|
| Mean words per item | 1 |
| Mean characters per item | 10.667 |
| Mean characters per response | 5.286 |
| Flesch-Kincaid grade level | 29.850 |
This codebook is reconstructed by the IRW from the IRW data standard and the script that built it, goksel_2026_embarrassment.py. It is our best reading, not the source’s own codebook, and it may contain mistakes. Where the two disagree, the source data are the authority. If you find an error, please tell us.
| Column | What it is | Source column |
|---|---|---|
| IRW standard columns | ||
id | IRW standard Identifier for the focal unit being measured — typically a person, but sometimes another entity (e.g., a word in a lexical task). | made in the build script |
item | IRW standard Item identifier. | made in the build script |
resp | IRW standard Response value. | made in the build script |
| Respondent covariates | ||
cov_age | Covariate | age |
cov_attention | Covariate | attention |
cov_display | Covariate | display |
cov_gender | Covariate | gender |
cov_story | Covariate | story |
cov_study | Covariate | made in the build script |
What item codes and covariate values stand for is in the source’s codebook, Codebook_Transcending Embarrassment.xlsx.
Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):
# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("goksel_2026_embarrassment_emb_perception")
# Python
pip install irw
import irw
df = irw.fetch("goksel_2026_embarrassment_emb_perception")
@article{Goksel_2026, title={Transcending embarrassment: On the reputational benefits of laughing at yourself.}, volume={130}, ISSN={0022-3514}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000477}, DOI={10.1037/pspa0000477}, number={6}, journal={Journal of Personality and Social Psychology}, publisher={American Psychological Association (APA)}, author={Goksel, Selin and Sezer, Ovul and Berman, Jonathan Z.}, year={2026}, month=June, pages={1078–1101} }
| IRW version | v549 |
|---|---|
| Redivis dataset | item_response_warehouse_2 v33.0 |
| Redivis dataset DOI | 10.57761/6m04-m698 |
| Manifest pin for this IRW version | v33.0 |
| Metadata source | irw_meta v39.0 |