Now there’s a formal study showing what many of us have known all along: College kids needing “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings” to avoid ideas that challenge their own are demonstrating “cognitive distortions.”

In a study published by one of those useful-but-niche academic centers, specifically the psychology-focused International Society for the Study of Individual Differences, four university researchers analyzed aspects of “safetyism,” which they term “a culture that treats safety – including emotional safety – as a sacred value, which results in adherents’ diminished willingness to sacrifice safety for other moral or practical considerations.”