#20 Post-traumatic growth with Laura Blackie and Eranda Jayawickreme
Personality Psychology Podcast
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The Importance of Longitudinal Research on Post-Traumatic Growth
The idea of post-traumatic growth has gained a lot of resonance in the U.S. People buy into it because it corresponds to their own pre-existing beliefs, she says. But if research consistently does show that it isn't an attractive idea, but very few people perhaps experience it, then we need to be quite careful with that ideal. She adds: "We're motivated by research that confirms our intuition"
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