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...
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- Oct 20, 2021
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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
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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...
- Aug 11, 2021
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Learn What Brings You the Most Enjoyment in Life with Our New Program!
Discover Your Personal Sources of Pleasure What do you think gives you the most pleasure and joy in life? Is it… Art and beauty? Caring...
- Aug 5, 2021
- 11 min
5 Exercises from "Designing Your Life": How to choose a fulfilling life
How do you decide what to do with your life? Perhaps you have had long-term ambitions since childhood, or maybe you follow unforeseen...
- Jul 21, 2021
- 2 min
Do you want to change your life for the better? Start now with our new interactive tool!
How do you go from merely wanting to improve your actions, to truly changing them for the better? How do you help other people engage in...
- Jun 30, 2021
- 3 min
Supplement your Clearer Thinking learning experience with these recommended resources.
Where can you find the best resources on critical thinking and rationality? If you’re reading this, you probably care deeply about seeing...
- Jun 17, 2021
- 2 min
Learn to listen better and understand your memory with these two free tools!
This week, we’re highlighting two valuable, free, educational tools on our site created during our 2020 Micro Grants program that you may...
- May 26, 2021
- 7 min
Thought-provoking episodes from 6 months of our podcast, Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Our podcast, Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg, has been running for six months! To help you figure out the episodes that you...
- May 11, 2021
- 3 min
4 ways to have a positive impact on the world right now.
At Clearer Thinking, we think a lot about how we can positively impact the world. Most of the time, this involves researching effective...
- May 5, 2021
- 2 min
Discover Your Philosophical Beliefs - Try out our Philosophy Quiz
Do you know what your views on classic philosophical questions are? How do they compare with those around you, and are they predicted by...
- Apr 21, 2021
- 2 min
Submit an idea to our 2nd Annual Micro Grants program to win up to $595!
We’re running the Clearer Thinking Micro Grants program again! As a reminder, this program offers small grants from $50 up to $595 to...
- Apr 7, 2021
- 25 min
How to achieve self-control without "self-control"
What is self-control and how do we master it? Part of what we think is challenging about answering this question is that self-control...
- Mar 14, 2021
- 5 min
How should you order the questions in a personality assessment or survey?
In the past psychological tests were taken with the use of a pen and paper. The order of items in tests, although significant, could have...
- Mar 14, 2021
- 8 min
Do people have a tendency to agree on anonymous surveys administered online?
The utility of self-report surveys depends on the degree to which research participants provide accurate and true responses....
- Mar 14, 2021
- 4 min
Uncover the Top Predictors of Fatigue
Fatigue is a major problem in society, associated with a host of negative outcomes such as decreased cognitive performance and increased...
- Mar 2, 2021
- 5 min
7 Reasons Why You Could Be Defining a Concept Ineffectively
Can a chosen definition be "wrong"? No. If you choose a definition, then you can define a sound or series of characters to mean whatever...
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