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Self-Conscious Emotions

 As my character is a child, it is very common during childhood to experience self-conscious emotions. Self-conscious emotions can end up spring-boarding feelings such as of guilt, shame, and embarrassment. One such example of when Louise Belcher exhibits self-conscious emotions is when her classmate, Chloe Barbash, calls her a "baby" because she always wears her bunny ears hat to school. This causes her to feel  the need to defend her pride, and immediately launches her into defense mode, asking her classmate what she said. If her siblings had not been holding her back, she likely would've attacked the girl in effort to prove herself and keep her pride. This self-conscious emotion of "pride" was caused by her appraisal of the situation seeing her peer call her a "baby" and the hat being attributed to this quality, and she then feels the need to prove to others that she is not a "baby." She feels the self-conscious emotion of "pride...