The Ledger, every show
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Eyal: 'Spiritual but not religious' people have higher depression risk
“Turns out those people are much more likely to suffer from depression and anxiety disorder than people who do affiliate with some kind of religious community.”
Eyal: Ego depletion only affects people who believe willpower is limited
“And it turns out that these studies around ego depletion could not replicate. We couldn't find the effect. And so there was one exception to this, and that exception was in a study done by Carol Dweck. She's one of my research heroes. She wrote the book Mindse…”
Eyal: Trader underwent 55-minute surgery with zero anesthesia via hypnosedation
“He goes into the operating room, and the doctors, for 55 minutes, cut into flesh and bone, pull out metal screws from his body with zero local anesthesia, zero general anesthesia, All through the power of his mind.”
Eyal: Evidence disproves ego depletion unless people believe willpower is limited
“Well, it turns out it's not true. That when we try and replicate those studies, and this happens in the social science, this is how science works. Science doesn't say anything. Science is the process of doing repeated experiments and seeing if they replicate, …”
Nir Eyal: Science does not support claims that digital media damages brains
“So don't believe these chicken little tech critics that say video games are melting your brain and Facebook is melting your brain and everything is melting your brain. Ridiculous. The science doesn't support that at all, right?”
Eyal: Seligman and Maier reversed their theory on learned helplessness
“Those authors, Seligman and Meyer, declared that they had gotten the study a hundred percent backwards. That the study results were a 180 degrees the opposite of what they thought. That we don't learn helplessness, that's our default.”
Nir Eyal: Rescued rats in 1950s experiment swam for 60 hours
“The rats didn't swim four times longer. They didn't swim for 60 minutes. They swam for 60 hours. They went from 15 minutes to 240 times more persistent.”
Eyal: 90% of phone checks stem from internal triggers, not notifications
“Studies have found 10% of the time you check your phone, is it because of some kind of ping, ding, or ring? 90% of the time, it's because of an internal trigger.”
Eyal: Recalling a memory actively revises it in the brain
“Every time you think of a memory, you are actually revising it in your brain.”
Eyal: Identity Monikers Significantly Boost Behavioral Follow-Through
“This research actually comes from the psychology of religion, where we know that people who have some kind of identity, some kind of noun they use to describe yourself, themselves, are much more likely to do what they say they're going to do.”
Eyal: Rumination over sleeplessness is a leading cause of insomnia
“One of the leading causes of insomnia, Is rumination, right? Chewing on the fact that you can't go to sleep for hour after hour, and stressing out about, well, if I don't get to sleep, then I won't be able to do that presentation, and my whole day is going to …”
Eyal: Financial skin in the game significantly outperforms pure rewards for habit cessation
“I came across a study that found that the most effective smoking cessation study in history Was a study that simply paid people to quit smoking, and not only that, it was even more effective if the person had to put some skin in the game. So in this experiment…”