Am I the a**hole for vandalizing my neighbor's dog's winter coat?

This weekly podcast comes to you from Veritas Psychology Partners, Dr. Dan Kessler and Dr. Gayle MacBride. Your host selects a conversation from the internet forums that neither psychology has heard or read before, and they give their unrehearsed, unvarnished opinions--essentially answering the question, "just who is the asshole here?" The host brings in feedback from internet commentors to round out the discussion, and we close out each episode with a bonus conversation about what ever happens to be on their mind. Sometimes something from their mailbag.

In this episode, the question is: "Am I the a**hole for vandalizing my neighbor's dog's winter coat?"In this episode, Dr. Gayle MacBride and Dr. Daniel Kessler both mentioned the impact of The Bay of Pigs on JFK, and how he changed his thought-making process after. Here is a great article about it, and several books that also discuss that topic:

Morten T. Hansen's "How John F. Kennedy Changed Decision Making for Us All" (2013) in the Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/2013/11/how-john-f-kennedy-changed-decision-making

Morten Hansen's Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Build Common Ground, and Reap Big Results (2009): https://amzn.to/4hQe3no

Robert F. Kennedy's Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (1999): https://amzn.to/4idPWPBA great book about Abraham Lincoln's cabinet and how he intentionally built it with people who disagreed with him:Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (2006): https://amzn.to/4baQ9kdAbout the way the vice presidency used to be awarded and what its roles/responsibility were:

Lindsay M. Chervinsky's Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic (2024): https://amzn.to/41apMGy

Jody C Baumgartner and Thomas F. Crumblin's The American Vice Presidency: From the Shadow to the Spotlight (2015): https://amzn.to/4hMVaC7

Jules Witcover's The American Vice Presidency: From Irrelevance to Power (2014): https://amzn.to/41q68rk

James Roger Sharp's The Deadlocked Election of 1800: Jefferson, Burr, and the Union in the Balance (2010): https://amzn.to/3EMQYUi

John Ferling's Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 (2005): https://amzn.to/4k4JR9X

And, our bonus conversation references our "blueberries" episode, (Season 2, Episode 4). Here are links to those if you want to listen:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5pl6kdg28aKxHIatfphh76?si=e6bf5178a4374187

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSFe1fq0nu8

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