Parents’ judginess of other parents is making their kids less able to deal with life
Parents’ judginess of other parents is making their kids less able to deal with life
- September 7, 2016
- Social scientists Ashley Thomas (cog sci), Barbara Sarnecka (cog sci) and Kyle Stanford (LPS) explain in Quartz, Sept. 7, 2016
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But researchers recently found evidence that something else might be fueling this
culture of hyper-vigilance: parents’ need to moralistically judge other parents for
their parenting skills. ... To test that hypothesis, the researchers – Ashley Thomas,
Kyle Stanford, and Barbara Sarnecka, all from the University of California, Irvine
– engaged more than 1,300 people in a variety of experiments.
For the full story, please visit http://qz.com/770655/kids-are-paying-the-price-for-their-parents-judginess-of-other-parents/.
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