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Author Lukianoff, Greg, author.

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.

Publication Info. New York : Penguin Press, [2018]
©2018

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Description 338 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-327) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary "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 Intellectual freedom -- United States.
Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- United States.
Civil rights -- United States.
Compromise (Ethics)
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.
Child rearing -- United States.
Parental overprotection -- United States.
Parenting -- United States.
Young adults -- Psychology. (OCoLC)fst01183224
Parenting. (OCoLC)fst01053407
Parental overprotection. (OCoLC)fst01053377
Education, Higher -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00903107
Coming of age. (OCoLC)fst01763769
College students -- Political activity. (OCoLC)fst00868026
Child rearing. (OCoLC)fst00854588
Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst00862627
Compromise (Ethics) (OCoLC)fst00871913
Intellectual freedom. (OCoLC)fst00975768
Polarization (Social sciences) (OCoLC)fst01068309
Social psychology. (OCoLC)fst01122816
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Coming of age -- United States.
Added Author Haidt, Jonathan, author.
ISBN 9780735224896 (hardcover)
0241308356 (hardcover)
9780241308356 (hardcover)
0735224897 (hardcover)
9780735224902

 
    
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