Antifragility: Difference between revisions

'''Antifragility''' or '''steeling effect''' is the concept that people improve through moderate adversity. Studies show, both too much and too little adversity result in worse psychological functioning, but moderate adversity in improvement.<ref>https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1027/2512-8442/a000011</ref> The term was coined by Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb and developed in his book ''Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder'',<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile</ref> which refers to systems in general and theoretical terms. Antifragility is different from resiliency (i.e. the ability to recover from failure) and robustness (that is, the ability to resist failure) as these terms do not include the improvement from failure. Though people are also more resilient than commonly assumed. Adults and children who experienced potentially traumatic events in either psychological and physical regard show resilience in the majority of outcomes.<ref>https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0272735818300539</ref><ref>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17405629.2016.1150174</ref><ref>https://www.ipce.info/library_3/rbt/metaana.pdf</ref><ref>http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/A-replication-of-the-meta-analytic-examination-of-child-sexual-abuse-by-Rind-Tromovitch-and-Bauserman.pdf</ref> Feminist studies in this area are often riddled with pseudoscience.