![]() ![]() Embracing these untruths-and the resulting culture of safetyism-interferes with young people’s social, emotional, and intellectual development. These three Great Untruths contradict basic psychological principles about well-being and ancient wisdom from many cultures. How did this happen?įirst 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. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising-on campus as well as nationally. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. “The remedies the book outlines should be considered on college campuses, among parents of current and future students, and by anyone longing for a more sane society.” - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ![]() Lukianoff and Haidt tell us that safetyism undermines the freedom of inquiry and speech that are indispensable to universities.” -Jonathan Marks, Commentary “Their distinctive contribution to the higher-education debate is to meet safetyism on its own, psychological turf. Finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction. ![]()
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