📧 Communication

This document is a draft of an essay titled 'Is Shame Necessary?' by Jennifer Jacquet, intended for the forthcoming book 'Future Science' edited by Max Brockman (August 2011). The text provides Jacquet's academic biography and begins an analysis of shame's function in society, using the 2008 financial crisis and Citigroup's attempted jet purchase as examples of behavior lacking shame. The document bears a 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT' Bates stamp, suggesting it was collected as part of a congressional investigation.