#234 Critical Thinking for Everyone! I Marcis Fennell | Trash Talking in Sport | January 23, 2025

Patty and Brain interview Dr. Marcis Fennell from the Department of Health & Sport Sciences at the University of Louisville. Dr. Fennell's research illuminates the social and moral aspects of "trash talking" among high-performing athletes. In this fascinating conversation, we learn the roots of "trash talking" (boasts and bragging) with and for your opponent and the surprisingly prosocial ways that this behavior can stimulate connection and competition. We use our critical thinking lenses to look deeply at our own assumptions and experience with trash talking to come to a new appreciation of this concept, thanks to Dr. Fennell.