Why Now?
The digital age brings new communication habits conditioned by social media. Habits linked to:
Anxiety Hopelessness Depression
Depolarizing Discourse is designed to give students the cognitive flexibility practice they need to counter these effects.
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A High stakes challenge...
Emotional Triggers
Regardless of not trusting the information they’re seeing online adolescents continue to stay glued to screens.
The Path forward...
Executive Function
Cognitive flexibility leads to better emotional well-being and is also associated with higher resilience to negative life events.
social challenges Depolarizing Discourse can impact
prejudice
bullying
Censorship
Body Shaming
Additional references
The Psychological Roots of Intellectual Humility: The Role of Intelligence and Cognitive Flexibility
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Specifying Links Between Executive Functioning and Theory of Mind during Middle Childhood: Cognitive Flexibility Predicts Social Understanding