The Importance of Shame in Our Society

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Tamara: We probably all have access to these emotions Shame and guilt And just the culture has By dint of the structure of society Or by dint of values that a culture places on particular emotions. Eastern cultures value calmness Chinese and Japanese culture Specifically value calmness As the positive emotion That's the most important one to have Whereas in Western cultures We value these higher arousal emotions Yeah, well that is so obvious through that documentary babies Have you seen it with the Mongolian woman who does not even There's not a peep from her mouth when she gives birth Like it's an amazing scene Tamara: It really is telling Growing up with a Latin American mother and father The word shame did

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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