Scandal is the quintessential public event.
This perspective explains variations in the effects, frequency, elicited reactions, outcomes.
He focuses on the emotional and cognitive experience of scandals and the relationships among those who are involved in or exposed to them.
Taking up wide-ranging cases in society, politics, and art, Ari Adut shows when wrongdoings generate scandals and when they do not.
Here is the first general and comprehensive analysis of this ubiquitous moral phenomenon.
Scandal is the quintessential public event