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The Dangers of Fad Psychology with Jesse Singal

Minds and Mics

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Is Self Efficacy a Big Unwieldy Thing?

One of the reasons it's been so hard to think clearly about self esteem and research it well, is that it's just such a huge unwieldy term. Maybe we would be better off looking at sort of sub components of self esteem. People have growth mindsets, which means I can improve my ability. My ability is fixed. This is usually applied to classroom settings where like, you don't want kids to think I got an F on the math test. The issue is if what's theory is correct and maybe more research will come out.

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