vindictive protectiveness
nounEtymology
Coined by researchers Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt.
Definitions
A tendency to protect people from perceived injury (such as criticism) by responding with…
A tendency to protect people from perceived injury (such as criticism) by responding with hostility to whoever is held responsible for causing said injury.
- “Vindictive protectiveness,” they write, “prepares [students] poorly for professional life, which often demands intellectual engagement with people and ideas one might find uncongenial or wrong. […]
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