Be yourself, but always your better self. — Karl Maeser I want you to do a little exercise I do with my class before they receive the grades for their first attempt at writing a research paper where the class average is a C-/D+: From the following six topics, please mentally rank them in order…
Eye contact is a dangerous, dangerous thing. But lovely. Oh, so lovely. – Hazel Hira Ozbek One of my favorite things about grad school? I can tell people that I literally study persuasion for a living. From writing chapters on persuasion to conducting my own research on the topic, there’s hardly a day I don’t think…
This week, I’m excited to share with you an audible version of Everyday Psych. Featured on the podcast, Water Cooler Talk, I spoke with Adam William about the spread of misinformation and the psychology of privacy — why we claim to care about it but then never do much to protect it. Adam is a…
This week, I’m excited to bring you something unique for Everyday Psych: a personal interview with one of psychology’s most esteemed and influential psychologists, Dr. Richard Nisbett. Dr. Nisbett discovered some of the most interesting findings in social psychology, conducting research on people’s ability to introspect, on what ‘intelligence’ actually is, and how people from…
Today, I’m excited to share an article from an expert in the field, Matt Coleman, on a fascinating cognitive bias known as the “headwinds/tailwinds asymmetry.” Read on to learn how you can harness an awareness of this bias to improve your everyday life! Life is hard. In fact, we can all point to events and…
It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices. – Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling Every day you are confronted with countless choices. Did you do your work or scroll through social media? Did you choose the freeway or the backstreets?…