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So tldr they did a study to back up the anecdotes in the book "The coddling of the American mind"
by cdot2 5y ago
So tldr they did a study to back up the anecdotes in the book "The coddling of the American mind"
- tomlockwood 5y agoAlso the study that correlates the cognitive distortion of catastrophizing with "safetyism" states that "greater empirical scrutiny of safetyism-inspired beliefs and practices is warranted before such customs become more widely adopted." It'd be such a catastrophe if those "customs" were adopted, wouldn't it?
- blindmute 5y agoYes
- jmeister 5y agoHaidt is a top psychologist, the book’s appendix is full of citations to quality psych research to back up his claims. I don’t know how the authors of this paper are related to Haidt et al
- bpodgursky 5y agoThere is only anecdotal data that parachutes save people falling from airplanes.