{"id":25817,"date":"2013-11-21T10:54:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T14:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=25817"},"modified":"2013-11-21T10:54:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T14:54:19","slug":"university-forum-speaker-shares-merits-of-insult-pacifism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/11\/21\/university-forum-speaker-shares-merits-of-insult-pacifism\/","title":{"rendered":"University forum: Speaker shares merits of \u2018insult pacifism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Excerpt<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>William B. Irvine has a \u201cfive-second rule\u201d that has nothing to do with eating just-dropped food off a floor.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16px\">But it has a lot to do with a person\u2019s ability to brush off an insult, the Wright State University philosophy professor said Nov. 19 at Bluffton University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Irvine is a self-described \u201cinsult pacifist\u201d who, as part of a research project, began responding to verbal slights with silence or self-deprecating humor. The latter type of reply has worked so well that it has become his common response, said the author of the recently published book, <em>A Slap in the Face: Why Insults Hurt\u2014and Why They Shouldn\u2019t<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>What a person does in the first five seconds after being insulted determines how much pain the insult causes, Irvine told a Bluffton Forum audience. Immediate efforts to calculate an insulter\u2019s motive will be upsetting, he said, but if insulted individuals try to turn the situation into a joke, their \u201csense of injustice won\u2019t be triggered\u201d and they can move on, he argued.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blufftonicon.com\/news\/2013\/11\/20\/university-forum-speaker-shares-merits-insult-pacifism\" target=\"_blank\">BlufftonIcon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt William B. Irvine has a \u201cfive-second rule\u201d that has nothing to do with eating just-dropped food off a floor.\u00a0But it has a lot to do with a person\u2019s ability to brush off an insult, the Wright State University philosophy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/11\/21\/university-forum-speaker-shares-merits-of-insult-pacifism\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25826,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25817\/revisions\/25826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}