Try two new tools to improve your work life!
How can you optimize your work life to be more joyful? We think it’s surprisingly rare to spend time thinking seriously about this...
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- Jul 27, 2022
- 9 min
Understanding the two most common mental health problems in the world
Chances are, your life has been impacted by anxiety disorders or depression, either through your direct experience or through the impact...
- Jul 13, 2022
- 1 min
Find and replace unhelpful coping mechanisms with our new tool!
When we’re struggling, it can be easy to rely on coping strategies that might actually harm us more than they benefit us in the long run....
- Jun 29, 2022
- 11 min
Understand how other people think: a theory of worldviews.
A libertarian, a socialist, an environmentalist, and a pro-development YIMBY watch an apartment complex being built. The libertarian is...
- Jun 14, 2022
- 2 min
Apply to the Clearer Thinking Regrants program!
Have a project aiming to have a large positive impact on the future? Apply for a grant!
- Jun 2, 2022
- 6 min
Promising intervention areas for improving well-being: what we've found using survey data
This research was conducted by Dr. Nadescha Trudel and Dr. Spencer Greenberg, and this short summary was written by Holly Muir. Which...
- Jun 2, 2022
- 29 min
A quantitative exploration of psychological interventions for well-being
Which psychological interventions hold promise for improving well-being? We explored this question using survey data to look for...
- May 5, 2022
- 7 min
Clashing Trauma: Understanding Relationship Conflicts
Here is a common situation that you might have noticed: close friends (or romantic partners) suddenly have their relationship explode –...
- Apr 5, 2022
- 10 min
Our research shows how word choice can have a huge impact on survey results
When you read about surveys, polls, and psychology studies in the news, you’re probably aware that these involve asking people questions....
- Mar 2, 2022
- 4 min
The enduring wisdom of a disabled man born into slavery nearly 2000 years ago.
Epictetus, born ~50AD, was a disabled man born into slavery in Phrygia (present-day Turkey). Nothing that he wrote down survives; we know...
- Feb 8, 2022
- 7 min
Ten theories for how to achieve true happiness
And useful resources for you to try them out The question of how to achieve true happiness has been debated for thousands of years. In...
- Jan 27, 2022
- 13 min
What AI can do, what it can’t do, and what’s coming.
What are computers good at? You might think that machines are better than humans at crunching numbers, but that humans still far surpass...
- Jan 12, 2022
- 4 min
A list of the most valuable content we created in 2021.
In 2021, we created a lot of new content aimed at genuinely improving our followers’ lives. Here, we highlight what we think is our most...
- Dec 22, 2021
- 11 min
Human behavior makes more sense when you understand "Anchor Beliefs."
There's an important type of belief most of us have, which we call "Anchor Beliefs." These beliefs are, by definition, those beliefs we...
- Nov 22, 2021
- 14 min
Understanding the Divide Between Social Justice Advocates and the Left-Leaning "Anti-Woke" Community
As part of our research for a Clearer Thinking podcast episode (where we bring people with opposing viewpoints together to see if they...
- Oct 20, 2021
- 3 min
The 10 most important components of self-compassion.
Self-compassion is an essential skill - it helps us overcome personal hardship, recognize what we want, and learn how to better support...
- Oct 12, 2021
- 5 min
Gender and the Tail End of the Personality Distribution
We recently released a free, interactive tool that lets you explore gender differences in personality based on data we analyzed on...
- Oct 6, 2021
- 2 min
An empirical look at the personality differences between men and women.
The question of how much gender is associated with different personality traits is contentious. Some extremely popular books claim that...
- Sep 22, 2021
- 1 min
Our Latest Program Could Transform Your Productivity Potential
Many of us strive to be more productive in our lives, whether we’re trying to improve our performance or juggling multiple tasks and...
- Aug 18, 2021
- 28 min
Shifting Your Stance on the Psychological Impacts of Power Posing: From Real to Fake to Small
In 2010, a group of researchers made headlines after publishing a study claiming to have found a simple but effective technique through...
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