Abusive People and What to Do About them

Decoding Assholes

Decoding Assholes breaks down the abusive patterns and manipulation tactics of everyday assholes leveraging familiar pop-culture references to make the patterns plain and using experts in psychology to design strategies that effectively deal with dangerous, abusive people.

IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE!

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Abusive behavior is on the rise and spreading like a virus which means more assholes taking advantage of you. Assholes don’t just ruin your day; they can ruin your life and do so without ever breaking a single law!

With tongue in cheek humor, Decoding Assholes is a street-level guide to seeing and handling everyday abusers, conmen, and high-conflict people. The show introduces us to narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths using a library of familiar characters from movies and TV as well as an array of experts in psychology, neuroscience, and sociology.

What if the manipulative tactics assholes use became as obvious to you as a stranger in a van offering you candy?
Maybe you have an asshole ruining your life right now. Do you know what to do?

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PRODUCER: Andrew Shepherd

Founder of Converging Perspectives, a production company known for Square Dance Caller and Campaign America! Andrew has written and produced many video projects over the last 20 years.

Andrew graduated from USC School of Cinematic Arts in 2005 and has been doing freelance projects that suit his interests of educating people on their own psychology, how they are being manipulated by modern society, and how to re-converge paradigms in a divided country. Campaign America! was a comedy web-series embedding lessons on how politics manipulate us.

Andrew is a founding member of Mind-University where he has specialized in teaching about cognitive biases, curiosity, truth-seeking, and mind-setting.

PRODUCER: Christian Shimer

As a digital filmmaker over the last 20 years who specialized in telling the stories of non-profit organizations, Christian Shimer has been exposed to the goodness and evil of human nature.

"Why has no one written a book that prepares us for the everyday sociopaths we all come into contact with? We wanted to resolve that in a way that was easy to access and which offers real, practical advice we can use in our daily lives."

Christian also has experience as a cruise director for Royal Caribbean International, a radio personality, a comedy writer, and he has been a student of human behavior and psychology throughout his life. He is author of the book "Secrets to Big Money Using Video - The Art of the Video Case Statement".