All Clearer Thinking Articles

Every article Clearer Thinking has published, 621 in total, grouped by year with the newest first.

2026

5 Things We Learned From Writing 'The 12 Levers'

A better way to ask “Why?” (from behavioral science)

A Research-Based Framework For Forming Habits That Actually Stick

Advice for Living in A World Being Changed by AI

Career Advice from Conversations With Experts

Debunking 6 Popular Psychology Myths

Four Things You Probably Don't Know About Meditation (and a Free Tool for Understanding 100 Meditation techniques)

How (And When) To Learn From Crowds

How Many Traits Make Up Your Personality?

How to create valuable things that people actually want to use

How to Find Your False Beliefs (Without Creating a Paradox)

How to have conversations that don't feel boring with strangers

How to Tell Strong Evidence from Weak Evidence

In Defense of Unanswerable Questions (They Are Not Pointless or Unscientific)

Is it possible to miss the present? Introducing the concept of ‘nowstalgia’

Lies, Damn Lies, and Fabricated Options

Mocking Power, Finding Happiness, and Speaking Clearly

Psychology Words That Don’t Mean What You Think

Self-Help Advice People Keep Overlooking

Study Report: Finding a broadly popular political policy platform

Study Report: Is Personality 4, 5, or 6-Dimensional?

Study Report: What concerns people about AI?

Study Report: Why Scams Succeed and Cures Fail (Understanding Hype vs. Value)

The Most Important Concept for a Healthy Relationship (In this Psychologist’s Opinion)

The Strangest Things that Correlate with IQ

What are the policies that everyone wants to vote for, regardless of their political orientation?

What can a single data point teach you?

What Capitalists and Marxists Agree and Disagree About

What our scientific findings can teach you about happiness

What Stands Between You and Reality?

What You Need to Know About Sociopaths

What you should know about one of the most common (and least known) mental health disorders

What’s scaring people about AI? We ran a study to find out.

What’s the best self-help tip, if you could only use one? And how do you put it into practice?

Why Scams Succeed and Cures Fail: Understanding Hype vs. Value

Why You Should Know How to Find Academic Papers, and 7 Ways to do so

2025

10 tips for discussing politics with people you disagree with

4 Surprising Lessons from Running a Giant Study on IQ

6 Lies You’ve Been Told, and the Complex Truths Behind Them

7 Insights from Interviewing More than 200 Brilliant People

A simple way to overcome irrational fears

A tool to help you with tough decisions

Behavioral Leverage Points to Improve Your Life

Believing you only have one option is dangerous

Does Life Coaching Actually Work?

Fundamental Concepts of Statistics, Explained Through Disaster

How and When to Think Divergently

How does childhood trauma relate to depression and anxiety later in life?

How Excessive Fear of Judgment Can Make Us Irrational

How good is Elon Musk at predicting the future? And what would it take to become an accurate predictor, yourself?

How To Create Meaningful Connections By Asking Great Questions

How to persuade people, ethically

How to sort evidence from B.S.

How to stay informed without feeling overloaded

How To Understand Your Morality, Using Data

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MBTI-Style Personality Tests: What Science Says About Their Accuracy and Usefulness

PersonalityMap – A Digital Petri Dish to Study Human Psychology

Proven strategies to build new habits with ease

Rarely Noticed Choices That Shape Your Debates

Research Report: A Data-Driven Approach To Understanding Your Morality

Should you bother to give gifts?

Should you try to live like your ancient ancestors?

Stop getting fooled by this common statistics trick

Study Report: Childhood trauma relation to depression and anxiety later in life

The Bisexual Revolution: Why are so many people now identifying as bisexual?

The strengths and weaknesses of one of science's most important safeguards

Three fresh takes on wisdom to help you become wiser

Three ways of updating your beliefs, in light of new evidence

To Hammer A Screw: How having the right tools can transform your outcomes

Understanding Moral Disagreement Through Data

What 20,000 People Taught Us About Entrepreneurship and Startups

What Distribution Actually Describes a 1–5 Rating Scale?

What is survivorship bias, and why it matters for your daily life

What makes something a cult? Here is what our data say

What science says about getting rid of insomnia

What you need to know about narcissism (according to a narcissist)

When Anecdotes Provide Strong Evidence

When is evidence “sufficient”?

When two things seem linked (but aren’t): Understanding different types of correlations

Why Science Keeps Changing Its Mind

Why there’s so much disagreement about the timeline for advanced AI

Why We Don’t Act On Our Values (And What to Do About It)

2024

10 Times Scientists Admitted They Were Wrong, and What You Can Learn from Them

A Guide On Building Lasting Connections: How to Make and Keep Friends

An effective approach to doing good

Announcing the Ultimate Personality Test 2.0!

Are people less moral than they used to be?

Are there cognitive tasks that women are especially good at relative to men, and are their cognitive tasks that men are especially good at relative to women?

Boosting Your Productivity With AI: Important tips for using LLMs

Boosting Your Productivity With AI: The Very Basics of Using AIs

Boosting Your Productivity With AI: Using AI for Brainstorming

Boosting Your Productivity With AI: Using AI for Coding

Boosting Your Productivity With AI: Using AI for Copywriting

Boosting Your Productivity With AI: Using AI for Corrections And Editing

Boosting Your Productivity With AI: Using AI for Emails

Boosting Your Productivity With AI: Using AI for Naming things

Boosting Your Productivity With AI: Using AI for Presentations

Boosting Your Productivity With AI: Using AI for Questionnaires

Boosting Your Productivity With AI: Using AI for Reasoning

Boosting Your Productivity With AI: Using AI for Recommendations

Boosting Your Productivity With AI: Using AI for Researching a topic

Boosting Your Productivity With AI: Using AI for Social Media

Boosting Your Productivity With AI: Using AI for Summarization

Boosting Your Productivity With AI: Using AI for Workflow design

Boosting Your Productivity With AI: Using AI for Writing

Boosting Your Productivity With AI: Using AI to Break down a Concept

Boosting Your Productivity With AI: What different LLMs are available, and which one is right for me?

Can astrological sun signs (or zodiac signs) predict facts about people's lives? We tested it.

Can gossip be good?

Can this article change your mind about how minds change?

Can you really trust personality tests?

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Decision Advisor: a randomized controlled trial of a decision-making tool

Do people with higher IQ rate pseudo-profound made-up statements as less profound than people with lower IQs?

Does astrology work? We put 152 astrologers to the test

Does childhood poverty or low socioeconomic status in childhood predict lower IQ in adulthood?

Does IQ differ depending on the family structure in which one grew up?

Does IQ peak in the mid-to-late 20s and then decline and how does this look for "crystallized" vs. "fluid" intelligence?

Does IQ predict outcomes only on the "left" side of the IQ distribution (i.e., for people of below average IQ)?

Does IQ predict people using their time the way they'd ideally want to use it?

Does money buy happiness, according to science?

Does temperature or air flow in the room impact performance on an IQ test?

Does the Dunning-Kruger effect exist (whereby lower IQ people tend to overestimate their IQ), and do higher IQ people tend to underestimate their IQ?

Four Widely Believed Numbers, Which Are Actually False

How accurate are popular personality test frameworks at predicting life outcomes? A detailed investigation.

How charts can inadvertently manipulate reality

How collective memories can sometimes be inaccurate: Investigating the Mandela Effect

How does being nervous or anxious before and while taking an IQ test affect performance?

How great is the U.S., really?

How to begin living more rationally

How to decide between competing explanations and theories

How to Read an Academic Paper (and Tell Whether it’s Bullshit)

How to Spot Real Expertise

How to think about group differences

How to think rationally about your political views

How To Vote Rationally

How you can change behavior: surprising findings from a megastudy

If you are good at one intelligence task does it make you more likely to be good at most others (i.e., are intelligence tasks positively correlated to each other)?

Is childhood nutrition related to IQ as an adult?

Is IQ normally distributed (i.e., is it really a ‘bell curve’)?

Is IQ positively related to income?

Is IQ positively related to political tolerance?

Is IQ related to "dark triad" traits, like machiavellianism, narcissism, and sadism?

Is IQ related to actively open-minded thinking?

Is IQ related to charitable behavior?

Is IQ related to different mental health challenges?

Is IQ related to gun possession and/or gun support?

Is IQ related to happiness and life satisfaction?

Is IQ related to the ability to identify facial expressions?

Is IQ related to the Big Five personality trait "conscientiousness"?

Is IQ related to the Big Five personality trait "openness"?

Is IQ related to the Big Five personality trait “agreeableness”?

Is IQ related to the Big Five personality trait “emotional stability” (i.e., a lack of neuroticism)?

Is IQ related to the Big Five personality trait “extraversion”?

Is personality a better predictor of important life outcomes than IQ?

Is the Dunning-Kruger effect real?

Is there a correlation between IQ and celebrity worship?

Is there a correlation between self-estimated IQ and measured IQ?

Is there a link between IQ and healthy lifestyle?

Is there a negative correlation between IQ and the range of behaviors that some might think could be negatively related to IQ?

Is there a positive correlation between IQ and a range of behaviors that some might think could be positively related to IQ?

Is there a relationship between IQ and adverse childhood experiences?

Is there a relationship between IQ and grit?

Is there a relationship between IQ and having been breast-fed?

Is there a relationship between IQ and how much a person was read to as a child?

Lessons in Truth-Seeking from the World of Martial Arts

Problem-Solving Techniques That Work For All Types of Challenges

Reasons why people meditate, and why they stop or don’t even try

Remembering Daniel Kahneman: 7 theories that can help you understand how you think

Some of the best ideas from our 200 Clearer Thinking Podcast episodes

Study Report: Can astrologers truly gain insights about people from entire astrological charts?

Study Report: How much is your anxiety level driven by your traits, and how much is it driven by your life circumstances?

Study Report: Is the Dunning-Kruger Effect real?

Test how well you understand human psychology with our new quiz

The Best of Clearer Thinking in 2024

The Flow State: Definition, Benefits, And How To Achieve It

The Missing Heritability Problem: Are We About to Overturn 100 Years of Research?

Undecided voters could swing this U.S. election, but who are they?

Understanding the difference between credentialists and non-credentialists

Understanding the nature of many types of problems

Understanding the Progressive and Conservative Psyche

Using Values to Become Your Best Self

We're launching a scientific test of astrology, and anyone can participate!

What causes anxiety: life challenges or your personality?

What is a correlation, and how can you think clearly about them?

What is Dysrationalia, and why trust can make you irrational

What is Rationality? How (and why) you should strive to be more Rational

What is the relationship between IQ and education?

What is the relationship between IQ and job performance?

What is the relationship between IQ and political views?

What people get wrong about happiness

What's really true about intelligence and IQ? We empirically tested 40 claims

Who is right about your money: traditional economists or self-help authors?

Writing opportunities at Clearer Thinking

2023

5 Types of Panic Attacks and How To Cope With Them

8 Life-Changing Questions To Ask Yourself

A nuanced approach to understanding badness

A practical roadmap for rational decision-making

Barriers that might be preventing you from changing behavior - and what to do about them

Behavior change is hard - this framework is designed to make it easier

Can you find the trends in charts about global problems?

Common Cognitive Biases: A Comprehensive List With Examples

Effective Trust Repair & Emotional Obstacles to Doing Good

False beliefs held by some of the smartest people in history

Feelings of Despair and Anxiety: Here’s Why Not To Worry

How good are your predictions, really?

How to avoid cognitive biases

How To Effectively Seek Criticism

How to Enhance Your Creativity

How to Have Productive Disagreements that Don’t Damage Your Relationships

How to Offer Emotional Validation (and How Not to)

How to practice self-compassion

How to use online flashcards in eight surprising ways (and how to create them).

How you can better deal with stressful situations

How you can reframe negative emotions

Increase your productivity today with these practical tips

Learn how to spot bad arguments and test your skills!

Lessons in happiness, from the pandemic

New tool to track your weekly goals

Our best tools for New Year's resolutions

Panic Disorder: Understand the Causes and Learn About Panic Disorder Treatment

Power posing: Can you really feel more powerful simply by adopting a posture?

Practical Tips to Become a Great Listener

Proven techniques to boost your mood in just three minutes

Reaching out is more appreciated than you probably think

Some Relationship Red Flags: List of Harmful or Untrustworthy Relationships

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Sudden Feelings of Despair? Here are the Best Strategies to Cope

Techniques To Overcome Procrastination

Teenage Panic Attacks: 4 Ways to Help an Overwhelmed Teen

Test your knowledge of Biosafety

The Best Of Clearer Thinking in 2023

Things You Should Know About Suicide

Think smarter about what's "good"

Tools and Strategies for Making Hard Decisions

Two Daily Techniques to Make You Happier

Understand your emotions by having better conversations with yourself

Valuism: Doing what you value as a life philosophy

What’s the best way to build a habit?

When to Trust Your Gut: Understanding Intuition

Who should you spend time with in order to be happier?

Why don't chimps run the world?

Your intrinsic values: why they matter and how to find them

Your Quarterly Life Review

2022

5 Steps To Overcome Negative Thinking

5 Ways To Boost Children's Mental Health

5 Ways to Deal with Feelings of Despair and Hopelessness

A list of the most valuable content we created in 2021.

A list of the most valuable content we created in 2022

A quantitative exploration of psychological interventions for well-being

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Boosting Self-Esteem: Tips For Building A Better Relationship With Yourself

Can you experience enlightenment through Sam Harris' meditation app?

Clashing Trauma: Understanding Relationship Conflicts

Dealing With Despair: 6 Ways To Find Hope

Dealing with Despair: How to Manage Feelings of Despair and Hopelessness

Does a simple tool cause people to create habits more reliably?

Drinking to Cope: The Truth About Alcohol and Mental Health

Eleven theories for how to achieve true happiness

Emotionally Exhausted? 7 Strategies to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed and Depressed

Evaluating the effectiveness of Sam Harris’ Waking Up app in teaching nondual mindfulness

Find and replace unhelpful coping mechanisms with our new tool!

Friendship: 8 Ways to Improve Friendships to Support Your Mental Health

How to fix the replication crisis in psychology

How to form a new habit: our study finds this free tool can help!

How To Reduce Stress: A Practical Guide

Importance Hacking - a major (yet rarely-discussed) problem in science

Is The News Getting You Down? How To Cope with World News and Events

LGBTQ+ Mental Health: Celebrating Pride Month

Men’s Health: 6 Mental Health Struggles More Likely to Affect Men

Our research shows how word choice can have a huge impact on survey results

Promising intervention areas for improving well-being: what we've found using survey data

Sleep Hacks: 25 Tips For Better Sleep

Stress Management Techniques: A Guide to Less Stress

Stress Management: Ways to manage stress

Stress Resilience: Stress Detection & Stress Resistance

The Best Stress Relief Activities: A Guide for Relieving Stress

The enduring wisdom of a disabled man born into slavery nearly 2000 years ago.

The Making of Mind Ease: How are we Helping the Mental Health Crisis?

The Making of Mind Ease: Our CBT Modules

The Top 4 Most Effective Types of Therapy for Anxiety

The Value of Kindness: How to Improve Your Life and The World Around You

Tired of Stress? 3 Ways to Feel Better Fast

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Understand how other people think: a theory of worldviews.

Understanding the two most common mental health problems in the world

What AI can do, what it can’t do, and what’s coming.

What Are All the Things That Humans Need?

What principles guide your decision-making?

Women’s Health Month: 6 Mental Health Struggles More Likely to Affect Women

World’s Biggest Problems Quiz

2021

4 Helpful Strategies For Young People with Social Anxiety

4 ways to have a positive impact on the world right now.

5 Exercises from "Designing Your Life": How to choose a fulfilling life

5 Myths About Anxiety that Need to Go Away Right Now

5 Ways to Stop an Anxiety or Panic Attack

7 Reasons Why You Could Be Defining a Concept Ineffectively

Actor-Observer Bias: Definition, Examples and Effects

Ambiguity Effect: Definition, Examples and Effects

An empirical look at the personality differences between men and women.

Anticipatory Regret: Definition, Examples and Effects

Anxiety and Social Media

Attentional Bias: Definition, Examples and Effects

Authority Bias: Definition, Examples and Effects

Availability Cascade: Definition, Examples and Effects

Backfire Effect: Definition, Examples and Effects

Bandwagon Effect: Definition, Examples and Effects

Belief Bias: Definition, Examples and Effects

Belief Perseverance: Definition, Examples and Effects

Benjamin Franklin Effect: Definition, Examples and Effects

Bias Blind Spot: Definition, Examples and Effects

Bizarreness Effect: Definition, Examples and Effects

Can You Talk Yourself Into Happiness?

Christmas Anxiety: How to Manage the 5 Biggest Causes of Holiday Stress

Clustering Illusion: Definition, Examples and Effects

Clustering Illusion: Definition, Examples and Effects

Communal Reinforcement: Definition, Examples and Effects

Confirmation Bias: Definition, Examples and Effects

Conformity: Definition, Examples and Effects

Conservatism Bias: Definition, Examples and Effects

Context Effect: Definition, Examples and Effects

Curse of Knowledge: Definition, Examples and Effects

Cyberbullying: 6 Ways to Stay Safe Online

Declinism: Definition, Examples and Effects

Declinism: Definition, Examples and Effects

Default Effect: Definition, Examples and Effects

Denomination Effect: Definition, Examples and Effects

Disconfirmation Bias: Definition, Examples and Effects

Disconfirmation Bias: Definition, Examples and Effects

Distinction Bias: Definition, Examples and Effects

Do people have a tendency to agree on anonymous surveys administered online?

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Does employment influence how you value your time? Insights from the Value of Time Calculator

Does Positive Psychology Help with Anxiety?

Dunning-Kruger Effect: Definition, Examples and Effects

Empathy Gap: Definition, Examples and Effects

Endowment Effect: Definition, Examples and Effects

Exaggerated Expectation: Definition, Examples and Effects

Experimenter's Bias: Definition, Examples and Effects

False Consensus Effect: Definition, Examples, and Effects

False Memory: Definition, Examples and Effects

False Memory: Definition, Examples and Effects

Focusing Effect: Definition, Examples and Effects

Four of the Most Powerful Relaxation Techniques for Anxiety

Gambler's Fallacy: Definition, Examples and Effects

Gender and the Tail End of the Personality Distribution

Groupthink: Definition, Examples and Effects

Guest Posting Guidelines For Clearer Thinking

Halo Effect: Definition, Examples, and Effects

Hawthorne Effect: Definition, Examples, and Effects

Herding Instinct: Definition, Examples and Effects

Herding Instinct: Definition, Examples and Effects

Hostile Attribution Bias: Definition, Examples and Effects

Hot-Hand Fallacy: Definition, Examples and Effects

How can Anxiety Impact your Life?

How Can I Control Stress?

How Do I Get Relief from an Anxiety Attack?

How should you order the questions in a personality assessment or survey?

How to Achieve Mindfulness in Daily Life

How to achieve self-control without "self-control"

How To Help Someone With Anxiety

How to Identify and Help Manage Anxiety in Children

How to Manage Differences of Opinion with Friends or Family

Human behavior makes more sense when you understand "Anchor Beliefs."

Hyperbolic Discounting: Definition, Examples and Effects

Identifiable Victim Effect: Definition, Examples and Effects

Illusion Of Asymmetric Insight: Definition, Examples and Effects

Illusion Of Control: Definition, Examples and Effects

Illusion Of Transparency: Definition, Examples and Effects

Impact Bias: Definition, Examples and Effects

Impact Bias: Definition, Examples and Effects

In-Group Bias: Definition, Examples and Effects

Irrational Escalation: Definition, Examples and Effects

Irrational Escalation: Definition, Examples and Effects

Is Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Effective for Teens?

Just-World Hypothesis: Definition, Examples and Effects

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Law Of Small Numbers: Definition, Examples and Effects

Learn four principles for decision-making dilemmas with this free tool.

Learn to listen better and understand your memory with these two free tools!

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Less-Is-Better Effect: Definition, Examples and Effects

Leveling And Sharpening: Definition, Examples and Effects

Loss Aversion: Definition, Examples, and Effects

Mere Exposure Effect: Definition, Examples and Effects

Moral Credential Effect: Definition, Examples and Effects

Moral Credential Effect: Definition, Examples and Effects

Negativity Bias: Definition, Examples and Effects

Neglect Of Probability: Definition, Examples and Effects

New Year's Resolutions: 4 Ways To Succeed!

Normalcy Bias: Definition, Examples and Effects

Not-Invented-Here Syndrome: Definition, Examples and Effects

Observer-Expectancy Effect: Definition, Examples and Effects

Optimism Bias: Definition, Examples and Effects

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Outcome Bias: Definition, Examples and Effects

Overconfidence Effect: Definition, Examples and Effects

Pareidolia: Definition, Examples, and Effects

Peak-End Rule: Definition, Examples and Effects

Performance Anxiety: How to Stay Calm Under Pressure

Planning Fallacy: Definition, Examples and Effects

Post-Purchase Rationalization: Definition, Examples and Effects

Post-Purchase Rationalization: Definition, Examples and Effects

Pseudocertainty Effect: Definition, Examples and Effects

Reactance: Definition, Examples and Effects

Recency Illusion: Definition, Examples and Effects

Recency Illusion: Definition, Examples and Effects

Regression Bias: Definition, Examples and Effects

Rhyme As Reason Effect: Definition, Examples and Effects

Risk Aversion: Definition, Examples and Effects

Selective Perception: Definition, Examples and Effects

Self-compassion: The Unexpected Power of Being Kind to Yourself

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Definition, Examples and Effects

Self-Serving Bias: Definition, Examples, and Effects

Semmelweis Reflex: Definition, Examples and Effects

Shifting Your Stance on the Psychological Impacts of Power Posing: From Real to Fake to Small

Six Ways to Communicate More Assertively

Social Anxiety: What You Need to Know

Social Desir: Definition, Examples and Effects

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Talking About Anxiety

Ten Conditions to Help You Succeed in Changing Your Behavior

The 10 most important components of self-compassion.

The One Exercise you Need to Reduce Anxiety

The Power of New Experiences for Anxiety Relief

The Three Pillars of Mental Health

Thought-provoking episodes from 6 months of our podcast, Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

Tips For Building Mental Resilience

Triggers: Why Knowing Them is Half the Battle

Uncover the Top Predictors of Fatigue

Understanding the Divide Between Social Justice Advocates and the Left-Leaning "Anti-Woke" Community

What Are The Different Types of Anxiety?

What best predicts how fatigued you’ll be? We ran a huge study to find out

What Causes Anxiety?

What do Psychologists Say About How to Live Your Best Life?

What Does Self-Care Really Mean?

What if I Don’t Like Meditation?

What is ACT and Why Does it Provide Relief from Anxiety and Stress?

What is CBT and How Does it Help Anxiety?

What is DBT and Why Does it Help with Anxiety?

What Philosophy Am I? Find out with our Philosophy Test (Quiz)

Why is my Anxiety so Bad?

Will My Anxiety Ever Go Away?

Winter Blues: How To Overcome Seasonal Depression

2020

12 Techniques to Accelerate Your Learning

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

A guide to coping with anxiety and fear effectively.

Anxiety in the time of COVID

Are you being misled by statistics?

Common Physical Symptoms of Anxiety

Connecting With Loved Ones

Contrary to Popular Belief: Challenging Misinformation with Skeptoid

Coronavirus: what you need to know

Could You Be in One of These 8 Psychological Traps?

COVID-19 end games: six major unknowns and four strategies for getting back to normal

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

Discover what your most important values are with this new, comprehensive test!

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Helping Others

How can Therapy Help me with Anxiety?

How do I Find a Therapist?

How do I Tell if a Therapist is Right for Me?

How Ideology Eats Itself: A Quick Primer on How to Be a Genuinely Good

How resetting your psychological baseline can make your life better.

How to comfort someone who is sad, disappointed, or distressed

Improving Your Surroundings

Is Anxiety the Enemy?

Leaving the House

Looking back on 2020 for Clearer Thinking

Managing Feelings of Despair

Managing Health Anxiety

Principles of Prioritization

The three types of binary thinking

We're launching 15 new tools made by Clearer Thinking users, as part of our Micro Grants program!

We've launched a podcast about ideas that truly matter!

What Types of Therapy Work Best for Anxiety?

What's your thinking style? Complete this test to identify your mental strengths and weaknesses

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2019

A new framework for thinking about truth and reality.

A new framework for when to trust intuition over reflection.

Answering these questions could change your life.

Are you overrating the importance of credentials?

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

Evidence-based suggestions for improving your career.

Fine-tune your confidence with the Overconfidence Analyzer.

How fun animations can teach you important ideas about the world

How to make better predictions

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

Is self-reporting happiness reliable?

Nonviolent Communication: the key to improve your relationships

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

Our new quiz tests your ability to spot misleading arguments.

Personality Types: MBTI, Enneagram, Big Five And Clearer Thinking's Personality Test

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Want to improve your life and further science at the same time? Join our happiness habits study!

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

2018

12 Ways To Draw Conclusions From Information

A tool for running informal experiments to improve your daily life

Can you guess which of these high-profile psychology experiments were legit?

Choose the right charitable cause for you with our new What Causes Match Your Values? tool.

Discover your Primal World Beliefs with our new mini-quiz!

E.A.R.R.: a framework for resolving harmful situations

Feeling grim about the future? ExistentialHope.com offers reasons for rational optimism.

Hear our founder discuss overconfidence, intrinsic values, and when to update your beliefs on the 80

How to prevent our political discourse from devolving into a Yanny/Laurel debate

Join this study to get a leg up on forming healthy new habits.

Should you prioritize stability or acceleration in your life?

We asked 200 people to predict American history in 2017. Here's what we found.

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Which intrinsic values set different demographic groups apart? Check out our study results.

2017

7 sci-fi technologies that could reshape your future

9 ways to reframe common self-defeating thoughts

A simple trick for managing your reserves of free will

Don't know where the time goes? This free tool helps make sense of your daily time usage

Feel good about your next big decision.

Hear our founder discuss novel research methods & more on the 80,000 Hours podcast!

How can Democrats and Republicans understand each other?

How susceptible are you to this common numerical bias?

How to change behaviors: 9 Strategies used by therapists

Just how dangerous is that motorcycle? The surprising math of recurring risk

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Save time by the minute with these 6 daily efficiency tips

The Definitive List of So-called Rules That Add Up to 100

The Evolution of Trust: this game explains the math behind interpersonal trust

The Poison-Cactus-Vampire-Ward Problem: What's your ethical intuition?

Want to change your behavior? Clear these six hurdles.

Want to change your habits? Try this simple, tested tactic

Want to improve your work game? Check out 80,000 Hours' evidence-based guide

What do you mean when you say "I believe"?

Why aren't Americans happier than they were in the '70s?

Why do Republicans and Democrats have such different views of the economy?

2016

10 productivity tips from ClearerThinking founder Spencer Greenberg

6 steps to protect your data from hackers and hardware failure

7 Questions for deciding whether to trust your gut

8 Ways To Be More Rational With Your Money

80,000 Hours' new Career Guide can help you find a fulfilling career that does good

Accepting Your Error Rate

Are bats blind? Is swimming after eating OK? This common misconceptions quiz has the answers.

Bangs, whimpers, crunches and shrieks: the surprising variety of existential threats to humanity

Check out this FastCompany article on our voter research!

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Discover your unconscious attitudes with Project Implicit's quick tests

Ever gotten burned by jumping to conclusions? This simple trick helps you deal with uncertainty

Get more happiness for your buck with these 8 simple rules for spending your money.

Happy New Year! Let's pinpoint your resolution.

How can I organize myself to reach my goals, improve my relationships, and achieve more in life?

How much do you actually need to eat to maintain your weight? These tools can tell you.

How powerful is the placebo effect?

How the wisdom of the crowd works - and why it can fail

How to make better cost estimates, avoid project delays, & fight the Planning Fallacy

Is it irrational to vote? (Remember: today's the day if you're American!)

Learn a simple model for tackling complex problems from ClearerThinking founder Spencer Greenberg

Learn which polls are worth trusting with FiveThirtyEight's pollster rankings

Need a logical fallacies list? Learn to identify several in the wild

Need self-improvement ideas for work? Challenge your beliefs and gain a better perspective

One important difference between Clinton & Trump voters: how they perceive honesty

Prediction markets: the best political forecasting method you've never heard of

The 7 biggest problems science faces, according to scientists

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