BrainCraft: Why You Should Stop Saying "Sorry" (most of the time)

Teacher or professor: BrainCraft
Subject: Science
Content of the Lesson: Try Skillshare for 2 months, for FREE! 👉 https://skl.sh/braincraft3 MY PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/BrainCraft And please consider SUBSCRIBING to BrainCraft 🧠 http://ow.ly/rt5IE My Instagram https://instagram.com/nessyhill | Twitter https://twitter.com/nessyhill Do you over apologise? Or over apologize, depending where you're from 😉 I've struggled with this for a while and wanted to dig deeper for the first episode of this new mini-series, Everyday Psychology. I hope you find it helpful, and share it with someone in your life who needs to cut down on their sorry response. Music by Epidemic Sound: http://epidemicsound.com/creator REFERENCES 📚 Why women apologise more than men: Schumann, K., & Ross, M. (2010). Why women apologize more than men: Gender differences in thresholds for perceiving offensive behavior. Psychological Science, 21(11), 1649-1655 Refusing to apologise can have psychological benefits for you: Okimoto, T. G., Wenzel, M., & Hedrick, K. (2013). Refusing to apologize can have psychological benefits (and we issue no mea culpa for this research finding). European Journal of Social Psychology, 43(1), 22-31 Saying sorry makes other people feel worse: Freedman, G., Burgoon, E. M., Ferrell, J. D., Pennebaker, J. W., & Beer, J. S. (2017). When saying sorry may not help: The impact of apologies on social rejections. Frontiers in psychology, 8, 1375 Know what you should and shouldn’t apologise for: Freedman, G., Williams, K. D., & Beer, J. S. (2016). Softening the blow of social exclusion: The responsive theory of social exclusion. Frontiers in psychology, 7, 1570 How to soften the blow when you have to reject someone: Freedman, G., Williams, K. D., & Beer, J. S. (2016). Softening the blow of social exclusion: The responsive theory of social exclusion. Frontiers in psychology, 7, 1570


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