She added: “And while men who challenged their professor’s ideas in class had a decline in stress, for women it was associated with a decline in well-being.”

honestly, this is what's wrong with women (well, don't get me started, actually; misogyny is what's wrong with men). they love a consensus, which is a good formula for believing a lot of, um, false and very dull stuff. i'll say this: these days i can get virtually no one - male, female, or other - to challenge my ideas, though i actually try to make it clear that i would welcome that. anyway, this is a piece about the mental health of college freshmen. one remark: substance abuse is incredibly rife among the men, and in general they are almost unbelievably unreflective about it; of course the whole thing is kind of parasitic on the denial that it's actually happening. this will both produce and cover up a lot lot of emotional problems. that's one reason that self-reporting is going to make the women look worse off than the men, which i actually doubt is really the case.