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Title The coddling of the American mind : how good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure / Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Imprint New York : Penguin Press, 2018

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Descript 338 pages illustrations 25 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-327) and index
Content Introduction: The search for wisdom -- Part I. Three bad ideas. The untruth of fragility: What doesn't kill you makes you weaker ; The untruth of emotional reasoning: Always trust your feelings ; The untruth of us versus them: Life is a battle between good people and evil people -- Part II. Bad ideas in action. Intimidation and violence ; Witch hunts -- Part III. How did we get here?. The polarization cycle ; Anxiety and depression ; Paranoid parenting ; The decline of play ; The bureaucracy of safetyism ; The quest for justice -- Part IV. Wising up. Wiser kids ; Wiser universities ; Wiser societies -- Appendix 1: How to do CBT ; Appendix 2: The Chicago Statement on Principles of Free Expression
Note "Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising--on campus as well as nationally. How did this happen? First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in three terrible ideas that have become increasingly woven into American childhood and education: What doesn't kill you makes you weaker; Always trust your feelings; and Life is a battle between good people and evil people. These three Great Untruths contradict basic psychological principles about well-being and ancient wisdom from many cultures. Embracing these untruths -- and the resulting culture of safetyism -- interferes with young people's social, emotional, and intellectual development. It makes it harder for them to become autonomous adults who are able to navigate the bumpy road of life. Lukianoff and Haidt investigate the many social trends that have intersected to promote the spread of these untruths. They explore changes in childhood such as the rise of fearful parenting, the decline of unsupervised, child-directed play, and the new world of social media that has engulfed teenagers in the last decade. They examine changes on campus, including the corporatization of universities and the emergence of new ideas about identity and justice
Subject Politisk sociologi
Uppfostran
Högskoleutbildning
Högskolestuderande
Compromise (Ethics)
Intellectual freedom -- United States
Civil rights -- United States
Social psychology -- United States
Young adults -- United States -- Psychology
Coming of age -- United States
College students -- Political activity -- United States
Polarization (Social sciences) -- United States
Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- United States
Child rearing -- United States
Parental overprotection -- United States
Parenting -- United States
Polarization (Social sciences)
Social psychology.
United States.
Förenta staterna
Nonfiction
Classmark 306.20973
SOC022000
Oc:oa
Alt Auth Haidt, Jonathan author
ISBN/ISSN 9780735224896 (hardcover)
ebook 9780735224902
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