Prevalence Is Changing Domains in Life

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LaVare: Changing your concept when the prevalence changes can be a good and useful thing. He says there are also domains in life in which it's important to try to be consistent over time. The more you consume social media, he says, the worse the world seems. LaVare: In many areas, though there is still plenty of work to be done, things are getting better.

In this episode we explore prevalence induced concept change. In a nutshell, when we set out to change the world by reducing examples of something we have deemed problematic, and we succeed, a host of psychological phenomena can mask our progress and make those problems seem intractable -- as if we are only treading water when, in fact, we’ve created the change we set out to make.

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