Roxanne Jones: Tumblr is the new Twitter for shaming. Racist at work site allows people to even post sections of their email from their bosses and call them out. She says it's a new kind of vigilantism that is pretty cheap, right? "It could be that the major cost is to your future self, not your current self"
David and Tamler welcome author and environmental science professor Jennifer Jacquet to the podcast to discuss the pros and cons of shame. What's the difference between shame and guilt? Is shaming effective for generating social progress or getting tax cheats to pay up? Is twitter shaming on the rise or on its way out? And what does David do when he's alone in the dark?
But before all of that, David and Tamler introduce a new way to support the podcast--through our Patreon account (patreon.com/verybadwizards). Plus, we discuss the retraction of a press release announcing that a professor agreed to referee a journal article (!) And can one passage get Tamler, the eternal optimist, to hate philosophy?
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Special Guest: Jennifer Jacquet.
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