Tag: psychology

• March 25, 2026

  Traumatic toll of betrayal may help explain why women kept silent for decades after abuse by Cesar Chavez

  

  Among the women who disclosed abuse by Chavez, Dolores Huerta described seeing him “as my boss, as my hero, as, you know, somebody that would do the impossible.” Debra Rojas said, “I had love for him … He did his grooming very well.” When perpetrators abuse those who trust and depend on them, the betrayal…
• September 25, 2025

  See something, say something? The science of speaking out

  

  Tattling, whistleblowing, snitching, call it what you will: Patrick Bergemann has spent the past 15 years studying the many ways that people tell on one another, examining everything from Afghan villagers’ reports of illegal Taliban activity to informers’ charges of treason in 17th century Russia. In a recent article in the Annual Review of Sociology,…