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Your comment is interesting to think about in terms of the brain.  We discussed that we never had these inhibitory functions before the conscious and unconscious split, however many thousands of years ago.  I wonder if the conscious is the part of us that needs to feel good -- that needs to feel accepted by everyone.  I say this because, having an unconscious that is particularly not prone to thinking or feeling emotion on great levels, I try to appear more emotional on a conscious level in order to make people feel "accepted" and not give them the cold shoulder that I feel my unconscious could be interpreted as.

It's incredibly interesting (and relative) to think about how our brains naturally shift to pleasing both ourselves and other people, and how much weight our conscious puts upon social realities.