Why Now?
Digital communication habits are conditioned by social media and AI agents, and have been 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 scroll.
The Path forward...
Executive Function
Cognitive flexibility leads to better emotional well-being and is also associated with higher resilience to negativity.
Depolarizing Discourse Skills 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