How to change behaviors: 9 Strategies used by therapists
As we've mentioned in a few recent newsletters, the ClearerThinking team is currently hard at work on a new tool designed to help users...
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- May 17, 2017
- 3 min
Learn about ClearerThinking's inner workings and the power of internet-based research on Rationa
About a month ago, ClearerThinking founder Spencer Greenberg appeared on the podcast Rationally Speaking. Hosted by Center For Applied...
- May 3, 2017
- 4 min
Want to improve your work game? Check out 80,000 Hours' evidence-based guide
Over the past year or so, we've occasionally discussed 80,000 Hours — a charitable organization that aims to help people find careers...
- Apr 25, 2017
- 7 min
Why aren't Americans happier than they were in the '70s?
Since 1972, the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center has conducted a massive biennial survey of American attitudes...
- Apr 10, 2017
- 4 min
Want to change your behavior? Clear these six hurdles.
We've occasionally mentioned in recent updates that ClearerThinking is developing a free tool designed to help users change their daily...
- Mar 14, 2017
- 3 min
Want to change your habits? Try this simple, tested tactic
We've occasionally mentioned in recent updates that ClearerThinking is currently developing a free tool designed to help users change...
- Mar 1, 2017
- 5 min
Why do Republicans and Democrats have such different views of the economy?
This post is part of an occasional ongoing series about the forces driving political partisanship in the United States, based on original...
- Feb 13, 2017
- 3 min
What do you mean when you say "I believe"?
We often feel that our beliefs define who we are — they certainly play a large role in determining our values, goals and behaviors. And...
- Jan 24, 2017
- 2 min
How can Democrats and Republicans understand each other?
Over the past few weeks, we've written a couple of times about ClearerThinking founder Spencer Greenberg's research into American...
- Jan 18, 2017
- 1 min
Don't know where the time goes? This free tool helps make sense of your daily time usage
Modern life is so busy that it can be hard to keep track of time. We spend so much of our days running from responsibility to...
- Dec 29, 2016
- 1 min
Happy New Year! Let's pinpoint your resolution.
Trying to become a better person is always worthwhile, and many people find the beginning of a new calendar year to be a useful starting...
- Dec 14, 2016
- 1 min
Check out this FastCompany article on our voter research!
Several weeks ago, we wrote up some of our survey-based research into the way that Clinton voters and Trump voters think about honesty...
- Nov 30, 2016
- 3 min
Try a quick new exercise for seeking constructive criticism!
We here at ClearerThinking strongly believe that learning to become more rational is a matter of changing your mental habits. In an...
- Nov 10, 2016
- 1 min
Ever gotten burned by jumping to conclusions? This simple trick helps you deal with uncertainty
Evolution has given us a default tendency to come up with just one explanation for the events we observe, even those for which there...
- Nov 8, 2016
- 2 min
Is it irrational to vote? (Remember: today's the day if you're American!)
Some have argued that voting is irrational, since the only time it technically changes the election results is if there is a tie. But as...
- Nov 3, 2016
- 2 min
What is the Sunk Cost Fallacy, or "throwing good money after bad"?
In short, the Sunk Cost Fallacy is a broad category of error in which irretrievable past expenses distort your reasoning about the...
- Nov 2, 2016
- 8 min
One important difference between Clinton & Trump voters: how they perceive honesty
The 2016 U.S. election cycle has been among the longest, nastiest, and most divisive in the country's history. The partisan divide...
- Oct 28, 2016
- 1 min
Want to get better at learning from mistakes?
Most people know that it's important to learn from their mistakes — doing so helps you become a more flexible thinker, and naturally...
- Oct 26, 2016
- 6 min
Why is it so hard to tell when people are lying?
Everyone lies at least once in a while. In fact, "once in a while" might be an understatement, a 2002 UMass study found that 60% of...
- Oct 14, 2016
- 2 min
How can I organize myself to reach my goals, improve my relationships, and achieve more in life?
Pursuing long-term goals and self-improvement projects can provide some of the most rewarding experiences that life has to offer, but...
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