Posted on 08/12/2018 7:49:39 PM PDT by DoodleBob
A new study out of Harvard—the first randomized controlled experiment designed to examine the effects of trigger warnings on individual resilience—may indicate that Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt were right about trigger warnings.
In the fall of 2015, Greg Lukianoff, First Amendment Lawyer and president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (for which I work), and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at NYU’s Stern School of Business, published an article in The Atlantic. In it, they detailed how college campuses may inadvertently promote mental habits identical to the “cognitive distortions” that cognitive behavioral therapists teach their clients to recognize and overcome. The pair argued that some campus practices—presumably intended to protect students from being harmed by words and ideas deemed offensive or distressing—seemed to be interfering with students' ability to get along with each other, and could even be having a deleterious effect on their mental health. Among those practices: training students to identify microaggressions (things people say or do, often unintentionally, that are interpreted as expressions of bigotry), turning classrooms and lecture halls into intellectual safe spaces (where students are protected from words and ideas they might find upsetting), and the issuing of trigger warnings: alerts about the potentially “triggering” content of written work, films, lectures, and other presentations.
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Gosh...them there Harvard people sure are smart! I woulda never guessed that trigger warning might coddle the mind. /s
Many potential donors, those who were about to donate a building perhaps, they saw what Harvard is doing to previous donors. They’re out of there.
There's a building in Harvard Yard — Matthews Hall, a dorm — that is decorated with dozens of crucifixes, inlaid into the 146-year-old bricks.
Every time I'm there, I wonder how long those religious symbols will be allowed to remain.
Anyone who needs a trigger warning for anything ought to be beaten on principle. Someone needs to toughen these people up somehow and a relentless pummeling is as good an idea as any.
Gosh...them there Harvard people sure are smart! I woulda never guessed that trigger warning might coddle the mind. /s
Talking about these hot-button subjects in terms of “trigger warnings” certainly is a suggestive act. One might be able to get past hot buttons, but trigger sounds like something built in, as to a gun.
That doesn’t excuse filth on your part, though. God is maddeningly fair.
Wow. A couple of academics recognize that "snowflakes" are for real. Millenials are the worse generation our country has produced, even worse than idiot boomer hippies. Adulthood and life reality is a foreign concept to these gimme-dats and crybabies. Hey, Millies, here's a "trigger" for you, you're beyond stupid and wasting your parents money in brain-washing universities.
Got problem? - go to safe place and suck your thumb. If not enough, there is always the fetal position with your blankey.
Some people are triggered at trigger warnings. What shall we do about those unfortunates? Provide them with trigger-warning warnings?
Somehow, I don’t think a reasoned discourse is going to evolve from this line of discussion.
ok, so what IS a “trigger warning”?
I should care why? Screw those 20 somethings going on 8 years old.
Why should you care? Well this IS a college. Not a bar.
To say fostering hypersensitive dispositions is bad for relationships?
Kudos to the obvious study, but this underscores the Left’s God complex and it’s commitment to the reinvention of humankind.
In this case, it’s “debugging” the reinvention agenda.
‘so what IS a “trigger warning”?’
It used to be called “paranoia” before the idiot left mainstreamed it into a political uproar device. Not unlike Muslims being “triggered” by intense brainwashing to freak out if a scribble looks like their god Mo. It’s cult behavior.
It is anything the sociology Ph.D's, Professors, Teachers say it is. Sociology is not science, it is whatever a particular instructor says it is. I took sociology 101&103 and knew it was mostly subjective theory even back then. Even psychology is not an exact science like geology and such.
"Trigger Warning"? Some expert alerting the babies to grab their blankys or teddys for a coming Trigger.
Not sure I get your point during this exchange. Or maybe we're on similar ground and just not articulating that well.
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