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Senator McSally Insulting Reporter: Wise Strategy?

by Jeffrey Rubin, PhD

Welcome to From Insults To Respect. Today’s post takes a close look at an exchange that Senator Martha McSally of Arizona had with CNN Reporter Manu Raju while he attempted to ask her a question in a Capitol Hill hallway. The exchange went like this:   RAJU: Senator McSally, should the Senate consider new evidence as part of the impeachment trial? McSALLY: You’re a liberal hack. I’m not talking…

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CONFLICTS WITH OURSELVES: LESSONS FROM CHARLIE BROWN

Lately, we have been focusing largely on conflicts that deal with one person having a conflict with another person.  We call these interpersonal conflicts. Today we begin to turn our attention to intrapersonal conflicts.  This type of conflict occurs when a person has a conflict with himself or herself. We can see both of these types of conflicts occurring in the following Peanuts comic.  If…

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