Talk:Blushing

message: The sections "When blushing becomes a problem" and "How to stop blushing" were copied wholesale from http://www.facialblush.com/. I have removed them. Anyways, I agree with the above poster: the advice given there is dangerous. Mixing pills and alcohol is an extremely bad idea... If anyone can produce evidence that the sections are GFDL and that the advice really is safe, then it should be reinstated. But aside from that, this should be removed. Andrew Morritt 02:50, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyvio 

message: Just out of curiosity, is it noticeable if a black person blushes?
09/13/2012----I am a fair skinned black female and I suffer from very noticeable blushing for mainly all of my emotions...so that answers that!
JCM: [Hm. This is a strange question. I think it is, however. I believe I've seen it?]
I've wondered the same thing, and as far as I an tell I've never witnessed it.  I don't see what people of different 'races' should differ in their physiological response to stress, real or perceived, but I really don't think I've ever seen a black person go red.
:The darker the skin is, the less transparent the skin is, which means it's harder to see the red blood vessels under the skin. 65.40.195.176 23:47, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Obviously, its all about the skin tone, but I'm black and can blush noticeably, but my sister, not at all. Millancad 18:51, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Does the blushing process even occur in relatively genetically isolated populations of very dark-skinned people? I would hypothesize that the purpose of visible blushing is to signal the experience of an emotional reaction. If this is true, if other selective pressues maintained a very dark skin color in a population, there would be no selective pressure for the blush reaction on a physiological level - meaning not only no coloring of the cheeks, but also no feeling of "burning" or heat. Can anyone here from such a population shed some light? --65.6.110.55 (talk) 21:59, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No one is actually going to say anything about that, because doing so would mean trespassing the political correctness lines, which is a NO-NO in Wikipedia. --69.121.51.151 (talk) 07:37, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question 

message: I am a fair skinned black female and I suffer from very noticeable blushing for mainly all of my emotions...so that answers that!
i found only this: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1473-2130.2004.00040.x , but this pdf is pay-per-view.
my question is what are the changes in skin color in black persons, is blushing visible on the very dark skin, like in this man: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kenyan_man_2.jpg
this info should be in the article, now it is too white-centric pwjb 13:06, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: there is blusing in different skin tones, i have seen it happen a lot.now that i am made aware of this . i have looked in the mirrow and seen my face blushed. i am a light brown- black.i have seen lighted skinned black women cheeks turned pink when they blushed. i have seen brown skinned women cheeks go lighter in color, i have seen their cheeks turn maroon in color.this is not fiction this is fact.u dont have to ask no more. the answer is definitely yes people of different skintones do visibly blush.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.242.182.106 (talk) 18:20, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I know that in people with relatively light color tones blushing is visible, but I think also that with darker skin blushing becomes less and less visible, that is there is more extra blood flow needed to see a difference, and eventually when the skin is very dark as with people that live in northern part of sub-Saharan Africa cannot be seen at all. pwjbbb (talk) 17:51, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  what about blushing in diffrent skin color ? 

message: Does anyone here have more information about the material cited in the article?
I'm trying to put the references in citation templates but it's hard to do that only with the year and author's surname. So far I could only relate "Rowell 1993" with Human Cardiovascular Control (not sure, though).—Red Thrush 14:05, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
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message: What about when your face goes red from lack of air?? 
why is that?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.147.140.110 (talk) 01:08, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question 

message: People have committed suicide because of erythrophobia, and is the subject of behavioral medicine studies (example). Me thinks it deserves more than a token mention in the present article. SteveChervitzTrutane (talk) 07:59, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Erythrophobia deserves a page 

message: Please merge this article into the medicinal term "flushing". Thx, 178.197.226.142 (talk) 13:42, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Note that the article says this: "Blushing is generally distinguished, despite a close physiological relation, from flushing, which is more intensive and extends over more of the body, and seldom has a mental source." Martinevans123 (talk) 13:49, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please merge with "flushing"