Upon researching my topic, I decided to initially aim for case studies since Lexicon Valley tends to incorporate them quite frequently. I searched combined keywords like women sorry psychology, since what I'm specifically aiming to analyze is the psychology behind "Why do women say sorry?" — and luckily, my first result ended up being a scholarly source:
- Why Women Apologize More Than Men (Gender Differences in Thresholds for Perceiving Offensive Behavior) by Karina Schumann & Michael Ross; written for Psychological Science (a scientific journal) as a study on behalf of the University of Waterloo
I plan to use this article as an umbrella of sorts, the roots I keep coming back to throughout the podcast, because it's so extensive in its scope and analysis — the author held several experiments, and then discussed the vast and complex results. It's also a source that plenty of the secondary sources I've found like to reference, e.g. this article from Psychology Today.
As far as popular sources go, I'm thinking of combing women's magazines to see if this topic has ever come up in a more widespread, would-come-across-it-without-specifically-searching-for-it medium. So far, the closest thing I've landed upon is a quote from a YA novel, and while it's completely relevant to what I want to touch on, it's said in a fictional setting, so might not be appropriate:
"Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the world? Have you ever noticed that?" Nicole asked. "You go on websites and some girl leaves a post and if it’s longer than three sentences or she’s expressing her thoughts about some topic, she usually ends with, ‘Sorry for the rant’ or ‘That may be dumb, but that’s what I think.' — Beauty Queens by Libba BrayHowever, I also found a non-fiction poem, Shrinking Women, that has a similar sentiment, and I think I could slip the relevant line into the podcast since it's small, but a real life source.
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