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The podcast explores the limitations of self-help and pop psychology, discussing the debunking of power posing, the replication crisis in behavioral science, the overestimation of grit as a predictor of success, and the problems with the Implicit Association Test in bias training.
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- Power posing highlights the unreliability of pop psychology research and simplistic solutions to complex problems.
- The self-esteem movement overlooks structural issues and wrongly attributes societal problems to individual deficiencies.
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The Power of Power Posing and Its Unraveling
Power posing, the idea that adopting a powerful stance can make individuals feel more powerful, gained popularity after a TED Talk by Amy Cuddy. However, subsequent research has questioned the validity of power posing. Replication studies failed to reproduce the same results, leading to concerns about the reliability of the original research. Power posing is just one example of the broader issue with pop psychology, which often presents simplistic solutions to complex problems.
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