discounting positives
“discounting positives: Claiming that the positive things you or others do are trivial, so that you can maintain a negative judgment. “That’s what wives are supposed to do—so it doesn’t count when she’s nice to me,” or “Those successes were easy, so they don’t matter.””
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Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind