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Mar 19, 2020
9 min

40 meaningful things to do when stuck at home in a pandemic.

In the coming weeks and months, the COVID-19 pandemic may cause you to spend a lot more time at home than you are used to. It can be chal...

Mar 3, 2020
9 min

Coronavirus: what you need to know

How worried should you be about COVID-19 (also known as the "novel coronavirus disease" or "2019-nCov"), and should you start preparing f...

Feb 12, 2020
12 min

A guide to coping with anxiety and fear effectively.

Reality can sometimes be scary. Do you find yourself in a frequent state of worry about the world? Or are there elements in your work or ...

Jan 1, 2020
2 min

Discover the tests and tools that might have passed you by in 2019

Happy New Year! The past year has been our busiest yet at ClearerThinking, with lots of new, valuable programs for you to use. In case yo...

Dec 23, 2019
23 min

Want to form some new daily habits? We ran a massive study to explore which techniques work best.

Chances are that you have a few positive habits you’d like to form. Maybe you’d like to start exercising daily. Or, perhaps you want to ...

Dec 18, 2019
1 min

Our new quiz tests your ability to spot misleading arguments.

News organizations, companies, and politicians are constantly making arguments about what they think you should or shouldn't believe. But...

Dec 4, 2019
7 min

Evidence-based suggestions for improving your career.

Are you deciding on a new career path, or reflecting on your current career and where it's headed? Sometimes we make career decisions bas...

Oct 30, 2019
9 min

We put some simple happiness-boosting habits to the test. Here’s what we found.

Are there simple, quick, and easy-to-learn habits that you can incorporate into your life to make yourself meaningfully happier? The Clea...

Oct 16, 2019
5 min

Practice making accurate predictions with this newly launched tool.

Every day each of us makes judgments about the future in the face of uncertainty. These judgments can have a huge impact on our lives, so...

Sep 25, 2019
10 min

A new framework for thinking about truth and reality.

Truth and existence are surprisingly complex concepts. The closer you examine them, the more complex they reveal themselves to be. What d...

Sep 4, 2019
1 min

A new framework for when to trust intuition over reflection.

Some people say you should "trust in your gut", while other people argue that analytic thinking is better. Who is right? To answer this q...

Aug 21, 2019
1 min

Are you overrating the importance of credentials?

How much do you value credentials when judging the opinions of others? Do you give them too much deference – or too little? Measure the v...

Aug 6, 2019
1 min

Our new mini-test measures two personality traits essential for seeing the world accurately.

To what extent are you a “skeptic” of information, and a “seeker” of new ideas? You can take our newly-launched mini-test to find out! Sk...

Jul 17, 2019
9 min

Teach yourself (or your students!) the components of critical thinking.

Enhancing your critical thinking can have a lot of benefits, including developing a clearer picture of reality, becoming a more informed ...

Jun 20, 2019
2 min

Answering these questions could change your life.

Could the act of answering open-ended questions about yourself give you new, important insights? It turns out the answer is "yes", if tho...

May 23, 2019
6 min

Do progressives and conservatives hold opposing values? Let’s look at the data.

Do progressives and conservatives really have different intrinsic values? If so, in what ways? By surveying hundreds of people, we identi...

Apr 10, 2019
1 min

Fine-tune your confidence with the Overconfidence Analyzer.

We just launched the Overconfidence Analyzer, a brand-new tool for evaluating your relative confidence at any skill! It was recently feat...

Apr 3, 2019
4 min

How fun animations can teach you important ideas about the world

Today we’re sharing with you what we think is one of the most fun ways to learn quickly about important topics like nuclear power, organi...

Mar 6, 2019
8 min

Interested in improving your relationships? Try Nonviolent Communication

Nonviolent communication (NVC) is a popular method of conflict resolution that privileges unbiased evidence and specificity. While NVC is...

Feb 13, 2019
4 min

Is language influencing your beliefs in ways you don't realize?

Most of us think we’re pretty good at forming accurate beliefs based on the evidence that is presented to us. In fact, in one study we ra...

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