Insight
Major Societal Problems Do Not Always Require Massive Financial Investments
“When we think about big problems that society faces, when we think about problems like child abuse or problems like poor achievement in school or problems like failing marriages, we often have the intuition that we need kind of commensurately big solutions to …”
Assertion Supported
Empathic Discipline Intervention Cut Student Suspension Rates by 50%
“And that exercise reduced the suspension rate among students whose teachers got that message by 50% over the school year.”
Assertion Supported
Guided Reframing Interventions Dramatically Reduced Child Abuse and Maternal Depression
“What Bugenthal found was that this exercise dramatically reduced the rates of what she called harsh parenting, like things like spanking and other kinds of physical acts that, that you could think of as a child sort of maltreatment within the first year of lif…”
Assertion Supported
Children infer mindset from parents' reactions to mistakes, not abstract beliefs
“Kids tend to draw strong inferences from their parents' reactions to mistakes. So Kyla's work began with a very curious observation, which was that the correlation between kids' Parents' beliefs about the malleability of intelligence and their parents' beliefs…”
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A 21-Minute Writing Intervention Halted the Downward Trend in Marital Satisfaction
“What that study showed was that there was an overall, a slow decline over time in marital quality. People, as time went by, felt less close, less intimate, less passionate, less satisfied in their marriages. And as I understand it, that's a common finding in l…”
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Reframing Tests as Non-Evaluative Erased Racial Performance Gaps in Lab Studies
“It was work showing that if you just change the way that a test was represented in the laboratory, you brought people in, undergraduates in, in the original studies, and you gave them a difficult GRE verbal test, you found that African-American students did le…”
Insight
Stereotype Suppression Consumes Cognitive Resources and Degrades Task Performance
“Stereotype threat happens most in spaces where people are really identified, where they want to succeed. They care about that space. They care about doing well in that space. They also, though, have called to mind the stereotype, and they don't want to be thin…”
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Shifting Beliefs About Belonging and Intelligence Can Improve Long-Term Performance
“These can include beliefs about whether a person like me can belong in this environment, beliefs about whether intelligence is something that's fixed or something that can grow, and those beliefs can be shifted, and they can affect how well people perform and …”
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People With Low Self-Esteem Tend to Dismiss Romantic Compliments
“And so people with low self-esteem, they often tend to dismiss compliments from relationship partners. They think of them as something that he just had to say or something that she just had to say, and they don't take them to heart. They don't understand them …”
Insight
Advocating for an Idea Increases Personal Persuasion
“And so, for example, if you get people to articulate and advocate for an idea, Then they become more persuaded by that idea.”
Assertion Supported
Growth Mindset Interventions Require Conducive Peer Environments to Succeed
“We talked for a bit about how, for example, growth mindset interventions seem to be more likely to produce gains in conducive peer environments as compared to non-conducive peer environments.”
Assertion Supported
Labeling Students as 'The Clean Class' Reduced Littering Weeks Later
“Another condition, kids were told that they were not litterers, that they were the clean class, the school principal, the teacher, the janitor all told kids that they were the clean class and that they didn't litter. So here you have young kids being labeled, …”
Insight
Expressive Writing About Trauma Creates Closure and Improves Physical Health
“If you give people open-ended writing experiences where they can reflect on the most difficult or traumatic experience that they've had in their lives, they can start to describe that experience, and in writing about it, they write it Often with a kind of begi…”
Insight
Psychological Interventions Succeed by Giving People New Hypotheses to Test
“It's almost like the intervention gives you a new hypothesis to test, And then you test that within the world that you're in. And if that test seems to succeed, you become more committed to that view. So in interventions on social belonging, everybody worries …”
Insight
The Standard of Parenting Is Committing to Acknowledging Mistakes
“The standard of parenting is not going to be perfection. The standard of parenting is going to be a commitment to a process that when you make mistakes, you know, you tell your child you made a mistake. And you commit to a process of trying to be the best kind…”
