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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- Jan 22, 2019
- 1 min
Want to improve your life and further science at the same time? Join our happiness habits study!
Our development team is currently performing some research on happiness habits - simple actions you can take repeatedly throughout the...
- Jan 8, 2019
- 7 min
Is self-reporting happiness reliable?
Unsurprisingly, measuring the happiness of a nation – let alone an individual – is a difficult task. Most people would agree that...
- Dec 19, 2018
- 2 min
Choose the right charitable cause for you with our new What Causes Match Your Values? tool.
Season's greetings! December has more to offer than family reunions and reflections on the year that was – it's also a popular time for...
- Dec 12, 2018
- 1 min
Discover your Primal World Beliefs with our new mini-quiz!
Do you view the world, broadly speaking, as safe or unsafe? Enticing or uninteresting? Alive or purposeless? And what implications do...
- Nov 26, 2018
- 11 min
12 Ways To Draw Conclusions From Information
There are a LOT of ways to make inferences – that is, for drawing conclusions based on information or evidence. In fact, there are many...
- Nov 5, 2018
- 5 min
Should you prioritize stability or acceleration in your life?
Clearer Thinking founder Spencer Greenberg shares some thoughts on two different ways to think about your life choices: One of the...
- Oct 5, 2018
- 2 min
Can you guess which of these high-profile psychology experiments were legit?
Can you guess which social science experiments were replicated successfully and which were not - just from reading a brief description of...
- Sep 26, 2018
- 2 min
Join this study to get a leg up on forming healthy new habits.
Do you wish you could adopt a healthier or more productive lifestyle with less strain and stress? We've got a study we'd like you to join!...
- Aug 28, 2018
- 2 min
Hear our founder discuss overconfidence, intrinsic values, and when to update your beliefs on the 80
ClearerThinking founder Spencer Greenberg recently made his second appearance on the 80,000 Hours podcast. In this episode, Spencer and...
- Aug 10, 2018
- 4 min
Feeling grim about the future? ExistentialHope.com offers reasons for rational optimism.
The author and humorist Douglas Adams once wrote that "nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad...
- Jun 26, 2018
- 5 min
A tool for running informal experiments to improve your daily life
ClearerThinking founder Spencer Greenberg devised the following procedure for running informal experiments designed to help you identify...
- May 30, 2018
- 4 min
E.A.R.R.: a framework for resolving harmful situations
ClearerThinking.org founder Spencer Greenberg created this framework for handling challenging situations. We hope you find it useful!...
- May 22, 2018
- 4 min
How to prevent our political discourse from devolving into a Yanny/Laurel debate
This is a guest post by Eric Gastfriend, CEO & Co-Founder of DynamiCare Health, and Co-Founder of Harvard University Effective Altruism...
- May 8, 2018
- 7 min
Which intrinsic values set different demographic groups apart? Check out our study results.
How do the self-reported intrinsic values of men differ from those of women, older people's from younger people's, and liberals from...
- Apr 19, 2018
- 1 min
We've launched a new free mini-program! How confident are you in your reasoning?
We've just launched a new free mini-tool! Should You Trust Your Thinking?: A Cognitive Confidence Assessment is designed to help you...
- Mar 27, 2018
- 6 min
We asked 200 people to predict American history in 2017. Here's what we found.
Shortly after Election Day 2016, ClearerThinking took part in organizing a novel research project. Inspired by our longstanding interest...