shame

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  12-18-17
  

  Shame worked in Alabama

  by Tom Nichols

  It helps show us the way to change voters' minds. 

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• 1-5-15
  

  Why Historians Need to Refocus on the Importance of Emotion in History, Starting with Shame

  by Peter Stearns

  Historians have to catch up with social scientists. 

• SOURCE: NYT
  3-16-13
  

  Richard V. Reeves: Shame Is Not a Four-Letter Word

  Richard V. Reeves, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, is the author of “John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand.”NEW YORK is deploying a powerful weapon to reduce teen pregnancy: shame. New advertisements around the city dramatize the truncated life chances of children born to teenagers; in one, a tear-stained toddler stares out, declaring: “I’m twice as likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teen.”Nobody is arguing the facts. But plenty of people are furious at the decision to highlight them. “Hurting and shaming communities is not what’s going to bring teen pregnancy rates down,” declared Haydee Morales, the vice president for education and training at Planned Parenthood of New York City.This is the allegedly “liberal” response. But liberals should think twice: shame is an essential ingredient of a healthy society, particularly a liberal one. It acts as a form of moral regulation, or social “nudge,” encouraging good behavior while guarding individual freedom....