Jonathan Haidt

Paul Slovic’s “‘If I look at the mass I will never act’: Psychic numbing and genocide” describes the lack of motivation that arises when people are given facts about mass tragedies. Genocide is the main problem that Slovic mentions, because it means the death of so many people. When mass casualties occur, statistics are usually utilized to describe the extent of the problems, but it is usually difficult for people to fully articulate the meaning behind these numbers. Slovic believes that human…

He explains this by saying Americans today are spending more time single, and experimenting rather than being married. As a close he mentions a point give by author Jonathan Haidt, that although relationships have ups and downs, when you invest yourself in someone you have the opportunity to find a beautiful companion. Furthermore, I believe that Aziz Ansari thoroughly portrayed his idea that while in todays society we…

Do Not Let the Helicopter Spin Out of Control Helicopter parents: may we know them, may we love them, but may we not become them. Many are unfamiliar with this term used to describe a parent who takes a domineering or excessive interest in the life of their child, and are often found hovering over their child’s daily encounters. According to the infographic created by Dr. Jesse Viner and Matt Zajechowski, “The term “helicopter” for describing a parenting style was coined in 1969 when it…

Much more than our Surroundings In the article “The War on Reason” that was published in the March 2014 issue of “The Atlantic”, the author Paul Bloom made some statements that brought up many questions about the completeness, and possible bias of the testing and research, that social psychologists present. This bias could have made the results he cited be less than fair to people in general and society as a whole. This essay will look at the article ‘The War on Reason” and other resources to…

Adulthood Traditionally becoming an adult means to have reached the five milestones of completing school, leaving home, becoming financially independent, marrying and having a child. Robin Henig’s “What is it about 20-Somethings?” and Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt’s “The Coddling of the American Mind” both discuss this transition to adulthood in the western society and how it has been delayed. This gap between adolescence and adulthood can be referred to as the emerging adulthood stage. The…

Article Review “Beyond Reciprocity: Gratitude and Relationships in Everyday Life” an article by Sara B. Algoe, Jonathan Haidt and Shelly L. Gable is aiming to show how gratitude may shape new relationships and the quality of those relationships we choose to keep in the future. This seems to be becoming a more relevant topic because it is somewhat abstract, and could really show us how we create meaningful relationships with others and how first impressions mean more than we think. According to…

The Dangers of Safe Spaces Safe spaces can destroy the basic setup of college campuses right to promote freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is something that many have fought long and hard for everyone to have. College is supposed to help everyone get accustom to how things are in the real world. Having “safe spaces” on campuses deliberately hinders freedom of speech and it helps generate a world of more close minded people. While colleges are comprised of people from all around the world,…

A Muslim, sometimes spelled Moslem, relates to a person who follows the religion of Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the Quran. Muslims consider the Quran to be the verbatim word of God as revealed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Like Christianity, Islam teaches that there is one God in the universe, giving Muslims a monotheistic worldview. And Muslims believe that Muhammad was a prophet and Christians don't. Both faiths also believe in an afterlife, although the makeup of…

university realm. What has slowly seeped in is the idea that student must be coddled and prevented from being presented with ideas that are quite frankly anti-anything they have perviously experienced, well at least this how Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt view the current trend of the American university system. In a article they penned for the “The Atlantic” they would write a article titled “The Coddling of The American Mind” released in september of 2015 they at the time would highlight…

Professor’s Name Student’s Name Course Date Understanding of the first Amendment and its legal constrains The First Amendment protects the right to freedom of religion and freedom of expressions. This freedom consists of the rights to freedom of speech, press, assembly and to petition the government for a redress of grievances, and the implied rights of association and belief. But to what extend is this right enforced, and the extent to which this is applied, where is the red line in the…