If we were to classify women in a binary fashion according to three variables: alcohol and identity (important, not important), knowledge of risk (risky, not risky) and sensitivity (sensitive to judgement, not sensitive to judgement), there could be as many as eight distinct profiles to engage.
However, the Norwegian model seems to be very sensitive to individual judgements and the possibility for individual variations.
Group members encouraged feelings of safety by being sensitive, refraining from judgements, and looking out for one another's (physical) safety.
Finding a way out of the fog of war will be difficult, but von Clausewitz offered this advice: "A sensitive and discriminating judgement is called for; a skilled intelligence to scent out the truth".
Researchers have four components in one of their PA models: context (culture, conflicts, knowledge, etc)., judgement (sensitive questions), rating and evaluation (motivation) [ 2, 8].
This would likely include those most sensitive to negative external judgements on women's drinking during pregnancy but who nevertheless drank alcohol during pregnancy, potentially at high levels.
Beware too, of perfectionism's close friends: an all or nothing approach; workaholism; fear of failure; and being over-sensitive to the judgement of others.
(I will be thinking here of the justification, explanation and deliberation of actions though much of what follows plausibly generalizes to a wide range of what Scanlon (1998) calls judgement-sensitive attitudes: "[t]he class of attitudes for which reasons… can sensibly be asked for or offered" (1998, 4 5).
She is also capable of delivering the speech of the year and making the wrong judgement in a highly sensitive area that leads to disproportionate chaos.
Obama's Perfect Union speech came about last year as a result of everyone else giving opinions and judgements on what his views on a sensitive issue – race – were.
