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Self-Improvement and Research Ethics (with Rob Wiblin)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Value of Doing Self Improvement Experiments

Sally Kohn: I think one topic related to self improvement that we might disagree on is the value of doing self improvement experiments. She says it can kind of prompt people to feel very anxious about the future or just to feel depressed about their performance. Kohn: It's hard in social science to test these things because they're potentially looking for relatively small effects that are going to be washed out by ordinary life.

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