Between 2023 and 2025, we conducted 1,452 confidential interviews with undergraduates... We asked: Have you ever pretended to hold more progressive views than you truly endorse to succeed socially or academically? An astounding 88 percent said yes....Students know something is wrong. When given permission to speak freely, many described the experience of participating in our survey not as liberating, but as clarifying. They weren’t escaping responsibility — they were reclaiming it. For students trained to perform, the act of telling the truth felt radical.
I assume like other psychology studies there will be a problem with replication of this, but that's an astonishing finding. I wonder how well that holds up across disciplines? I would think philosophy students more honest about what they think, for example, because how could you hide it when engaged in so many deep discussions of ideas?
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