The Growing Pains of How to Behave Online

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"This whole new digital sphere is a bit of a learning curve," she says. "I agree that people may be overly conservative or cautious, but it's also good that people don't just say whatever they're thinking in a drunken moment to the world" A lot of people do rely on the Internet to look up people's reputations before they meet them,. And if this kind of material comes up on you, like, you can't escape that. It really is shameful.

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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