There is a quiet, creeping unease spreading through workplaces, classrooms, social media feeds, and dinner tables. People are ...

I go by the name Shameless Psychiatrist because I talk about how to reduce shame. In fact, I wrote an entire book about it! Call-out or cancel culture is focused on shaming. This means group shaming ...

Graphic of four people. some drawbacks of cancel culture include its tendency for hypervigilance and tunnel visioning. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. If you spend time on social media, you’re ...

At Penn State University, sociologist Dr. Sam Richards posed a question that hit close to home for his class: Are American students being silenced? The discussion, featured on the YouTube channel SOC ...

It’s no secret that many celebrities are terrified of being canceled. From Blake Lively to Kendall Jenner, numerous public figures have faced dents to their reputations, floods of hate comments, mass ...

“Previously a voice for the canceled, they’re now the ones canceling,” intoned NBC News last month in a story, headlined “Trump and Republicans find themselves on the other side of the cancel culture ...