The 9 Cognitive Distortions Taught in College…

… and why students pay to learn them.

Thomas P Seager, PhD
Sep 9, 2018 · 10 min read

It’s pretty reasonable to expect that Americans go to college for lots of reasons that include how to improve their thinking. But Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, both professors at New York University, have just published a new book called The Coddling of the American Mind that suggests some college classes are doing the opposite.

Haidt became well known for his two previous books, The Happiness Hypothesis and The Righteous Mind which I’ve quoted before in…

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