Trust vs. Mistrust is Stage 1 of Erik Erikson's 8 stages of psychosocial development
-If child develops trust with parents, they go on to believe that the world is basically trustworthy
-If child is mistreated, they go on to become suspicious/mistrustful of others later in life
"Millennials are also more likely than older generations to report that they have no acquaintances (25% of Millennials say this is the case), no friends (22%), no close friends (27%), and no best friends (30%)."
"When adults let their children down, kids learn to make choices that let themselves down. Our disappointment with adults led us to believe that rules weren’t actually legitimate. They were invented by adults...Why should we listen?" city-journal.org/family-instabi…
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1. 88% of college students say they pretended to be more progressive than they are to succeed academically or socially. 80% of students say they submitted class work misrepresenting their real views to conform to the progressive views of the professor.
2. Intelligence is inversely correlated with pathological attitudes toward celebrities. In other words, people with lower IQ scores believe that if they meet their favorite celebrities, these celebrities would enjoy speaking with them, and that they'd have deep hidden connections
3. Women who self-identify as “feminists” exhibit much stronger preferences for premium beauty products as compared with non-feminist women. The practical purpose and effect of these investments is to help elite women stand out relative to female rivals.
1. Liberals tend to divide the world into two camps—the vulnerable oppressed vs. the invulnerable oppressors—while conservatives see everyone as similarly susceptible to victimization. Assumptions about vulnerability help explain many moral differences.
2. Holocaust deniers have an average IQ of 86, about 1 standard deviation below the population average of 100.
3. People who have fragile self-esteem tend to assume that any ambiguous or even slightly negative social interactions have malicious intent. This bias makes it difficult for people with fragile self-esteem to form and sustain healthy relationships.
1. If you want a happy and long-term romance, pick a partner with high levels of agreeableness and conscientiousness. These traits are associated with longer and happier marriages. Men and women high in conscientiousness tend to be more faithful.
2. Seventy years ago the psychologist Hans Eysenck found evidence that authoritarianism existed among left-wingers as well as right-wingers. He was ignored by both American and British intellectuals because, at the time, they greatly admired Joseph Stalin.
1. Unlike motherhood, which is relatively evenly distributed across the female status hierarchy, men with higher lifetime earnings, higher net worth, higher educational attainment, and higher leadership skills have more children over their lifetimes.
2. People under 25 are evenly split on the question of whether JK Rowling should be dropped by her publishers for her criticism of transgenderism, while nobody over 45 thinks she should be cancelled. These more illiberal generations will be the median voter by the 2040s.
3. Women are more likely to wear high heels if they anticipate interacting with an attractive male, and less likely if they anticipate interacting with an unattractive male. Desire predicts the inclination to wear high-heeled rather than low-heeled shoes.
1. While men are nearly 18 percent faster than women in 5K races, they are only 11 percent faster in marathons, 3.7 percent faster at 50 miles, roughly even as they approach 100 miles, and then women routinely outpace men at races 195 miles and up.
2. In a longitudinal study on happiness, the most reliable indicator of being happy and healthy at age 80 was relationship satisfaction, especially within marriages, which proved to be the strongest predictor of a fulfilling and healthy life.
3. Behaviors associated with high Openness on the Big 5: