There is a power to having the ability to post things anonymously because the powerless can do, you know, actually report things that they wouldn't normally be. I think there will be eventually zero anonymity unless you're super, super high powered hacker. As afraid as I am of being shamed as long as I have things that I can say without anybody ever seeing,. I'm okay with. I don't have guilt. I have shame.
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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