Presenter: everyday microaggressions accumulate and can create hostile workplaces
Professor Edelson illustrated how brief, repeated slights — 'microaggressions' — erode workplace and classroom climates, citing Psychology Today and examples from healthcare, advertising and schools.
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Professor Edelson said microaggressions are "brief and everyday slights, insults, indignities, and denigrating messages," quoting a Psychology Today definition and emphasizing that the "micro" qualifier does not mean the conduct is insignificant. She explained that cumulative microaggressions can build synergies that create hostile work or learning environments.
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