90: Jonathan Haidt | The Danger of Good Intentions and Safe Spaces

Jonathan Haidt (@JonHaidt) is a social psychologist who studies the American culture wars and is widely considered to be one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of morality. He is the co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure.

What We Discuss with Jonathan Haidt:

• Why should we be preparing the child for the road • and not • the road for the child?

• How the concepts of safe spaces and trigger warnings are making our society less safe • and less prepared for the real world.

• What we should be doing instead to prepare ourselves and our kids for reality • .

Cognitive distortions • and how we become victims of our own flawed mindsets.

The three fundamental untruths • being perpetuated by academia and the media and how we can fight these influences.

• And much more...

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Release date

Lydbog: 4. september 2018