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** I left out a Fr. Dr., since I got confused by the order of the titles as I was entering them. Which, again, is kind of the point, since everyone on that list has a Master's and a Doctorate.

As whimsical as someone's title being Hr/Fr Prof. Mag. Dipl.-Ing. DDr. Oberrat (probably should be a "med./rerum." in there, this is a specialist appointed to the medical faculty when they were civil servants), do you want to be in the position where getting that wrong is rude?.

My department has a Hr. Prof. Dr.; a Fr. Prof; a Hr. Mag. Dr.; a Fr. Mag. Dr.; a Hr. Mag., and (3?) Hr.* We all have the same equivalent degrees. The formality doesn't actually convey any universal level of information or respect. *Not 100% sure about the machine learning guys.

I have thought about this a fair bit since I moved to Austria. At first, I was a big fan of the funny and antiquated formal use of titles all the time . until I found out the rules for titles don't include addressing me as Dr. (only German Doktorates count).

And of course, we know that addressing someone as Dr is not always respectful. In fact, it often shows snark or a level of contempt to refer to someone in situations where first names would be normal (like Twitter) as "Dr" X.

More than that, when I was dating a librarian with a PhD, I noticed how hostile many (female) librarians were to the entire idea of using the title Dr to refer to another librarian (largely politics about credentialism in the field). It is not a magic bullet to respect.

My profs said I should use first names. I didn't, but I was weird about the whole thing at the time. Then I noticed that I didn't address anyone outside the dept. like that (e.g., others in my subfield), since it was not a going expectation.*. *Offer not valid in all countries.

My students, even when I introduce myself as Dr Winslow, break down to approx 20% "Professor" (I am not), 20% "Dr", 20% "Mr", 20% "Sean", and 20% "Hello" and . is this a real problem? The worst error is the first one, but students neither know nor care about the difference.

Do I mind being addressed as Dr Winslow? No, it is my title (well, outside of Austria). But addressing people by their first name is just such generally accepted and normal practice, both within academia and wider society, that insisting on Dr. comes across as weirdly demanding.

Since it is going around again today, I am not a fan of "you should always address PhDs as Dr". I thought I wanted this before I got mine, but people generally don't address others like this in the Anglosphere anymore outside of formal situations; it comes across as disagreeable.

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I get that this positive psychology stuff is well-intentioned, but if “you have pain and stress because you have a bad attitude” were true, it seems selective that I have a bad attitude when I use my knee in certain ways, making me think the bad knee is the real problem.