Literature is full of blushing characters: Everyone from Elizabeth Bennet to Hermione Granger—heck, even the ax-wielding Annie Wilkes from Misery—occasionally blushes, and as a result, the reader ...

No one likes turning beet red, but blushing is uniquely human. Here, a scientist explains why we blush and how we can avoid it. You’re 12 years old again, and your middle school crush just asked you ...

It's a Saturday afternoon and I'm standing in line at a supermarket holding a lemon, and lemon-infused tonic. I also happen to be wearing a lemon print dress. Suddenly a voice from behind me says: "I ...

A new collaboration between researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Chieti explores the neural substrates of blushing in a MRI ...

I’m at the doctor’s and my usual physician is on vacation, so they’ve sent me in to see a replacement to whom I believe Rachel from Friends would refer as “cute-boy doctor.” I’m 35, happily married, ...

Dear Doctor K: I seem to blush more than most people, and I find it a little embarrassing. Why am I more prone to blushing than others? Is there anything I can do about it? Dear Reader: Blushing ...

If you’re a fair-skinned person, you are undoubtedly familiar with the experience of blushing. Perhaps your feelings about a person you care about become revealed before you were ready to voice them ...

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