According to the renowned psychologist, he only expressed the scientific facts when he attacked The Fairytale Land for Everyone.

More than a thousand psychologists have signed a resolution advocating for – Dora Dúró A fairy tale for everyone next to the storybook. The document also disassociates itself from “the statements of all psychologists, including Emőke Bagdy, which contain unprofessional statements and contrary to the current position of science, and whose expected effect is to increase hatred and social exclusion.” (You can read our articles on everyone’s fairy tale here.)

Bagdy Emőke to Hungarian nationBen responded at length to the accusations against him. While writing, he contributed to the debate on the basis of the laws of developmental psychology between the ages of 3 and 6. He writes at length that this age is “a sensitive period of identification with one’s gender, according to psychological evidence of epigenetic development.”

“When ninety percent of the population is characterized by this biological and social gender fit and passes without problems, represents the majority, why is it so important to sensitize the processes of minorities through fairy tales? Do some people want to change the average? “He asks the question.

He claims that he has never activated and will never activate any hate speech. It respects otherness and protests against all exclusion. “Would it incite hatred? Would it be an exclusion? They are deeply outraged by the unfounded accusations. “

He asks those who have collected signatures, citing his section within the Hungarian Psychological Society and making unfounded accusations against him by misinterpreting him, to stop the emotion that they have successfully achieved. “This anger was not caused by me, but by his own anger. Of the fifteen thousand Hungarian psychologists, a thousand signatories are with you, but we do not know what the fourteen thousand think ”.

“I do not want to join ideologies of either the right or the left, I want to continue being a servant of science. I ask for respect, which I myself give to others ”, he concludes.



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