Is Shame Necessary?: New Uses for an Old Tool Format:Paperback complex souls

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40 years after sports history was made

Mingling behind-the-scenes stories from television's best-loved comedy series with a dark look inside a world-class funnyman

Published: 09/07/2011

Is Shame Necessary?: New Uses for an Old Tool Format:Paperback complex soulsAn urgent, illuminating exploration of the social nature of shame and of how it might be used to promote large scale political change and social reform. "[Jacquet] exposes the ways shame plays into collective ideas of punishment and reward, and the social mechanisms that dictate the ways we dictate our behavior." The Boston Globe Examining how we can retrofit the art of shaming for the age of social media, Jennifer Jacquet shows that we can challenge