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Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that it is caused by low self-esteem. that theory has been endorsed by dozens of prominent experts, has inspired school programs designed to get kids to feel better about themselves, and in the late 1980s led the california legislature to form a task force to promote self-esteem. yet baumeister has shown that the theory could not be more spectacularly, hilariously, achingly wrong. violence is a problem not of too little self-esteem but of too much, particularly when it is unearned.
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Steven Pinker
Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that it is caused by low self-esteem. that theory has been endorsed by dozens of prominent experts, has inspired school programs designed to get kids to feel better about themselves, and in the late 1980s led the california legislature to form a task force to promote self-esteem. yet baumeister has shown that the theory could not be more spectacularly, hilariously, achingly wrong. violence is a problem not of too little self-esteem but of too much, particularly when it is unearned.
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