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In 2013, Reese Witherspoon went out with her husband and had a little too much to drink. And then she told a cop some mildly unkind things, got arrested, and issued a pretty sincere apology that seems to have worked well on us. We discuss the psychology of shame and vulnerability and how everything is worse when it's caught on camera.
By Emily Buikema and Kaci GuilfordIn 2013, Reese Witherspoon went out with her husband and had a little too much to drink. And then she told a cop some mildly unkind things, got arrested, and issued a pretty sincere apology that seems to have worked well on us. We discuss the psychology of shame and vulnerability and how everything is worse when it's caught on camera.