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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 …”
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…”
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 …”
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 …”
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.”
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…”
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 …”
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…”