The Difference Between Shame and Embarrassement

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Embarrassment is the kind of natural display that they show when they're being excessively complemented So there are even ways to sort of examine this in kids I describe, like if you have toilet paper on your shoe You might even blush. But embarrassment typically is about a kind of transgression That is not moral in character so maybe it's better as a way of defining embarrassment Than it is a way of define shame. Cross-cultural differences in shame and how often people experience shame can be striking. In individualistic societies like our own guilt has replaced shame for us because we're alone all the time in the dark or whatever It's just one thing after another.

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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