How 'emotional reasoning' informs current campus sexual assault hysteria

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'The notion that one's negative feelings reflect reality is permeating our college campuses when it comes to free speech and sexual assault.

In an informative article for the Atlantic, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education president Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt tackle "The Coddling of the American Mind" — specifically how "microagressions" and "trigger warnings" are leading to mental health problems on college campuses.

While discussing the reality distortions identified by cognitive behavioral therapy, Lukianoff and Haidt invoke the concept of "emotional reasoning," defined by adjunct psychiatric professor David D. Burns as assuming "that your negative emotions necessarily reflect the way things really are: 'I feel it, therefore it must be true.' " The distortion is also defined by other cognitive therapy experts as letting "your feelings guide your interpretation of reality."'