The trouble with 'microaggressions'
- Written by Nick Haslam, Professor of Psychology, University of Melbourne
Few psychological concepts have caught on as successfully as the idea of the “microaggression”. The term gained wide currency only ten years ago, but by 2015 it had been crowned the word of the year by the Global Language Monitor. It is now rife on college campuses in the United States and increasingly beyond their ivied walls.
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