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How to Change Your Life Through the Power of Suggestion, With Science Journalist Erik Vance
This week we’re learning how we can use hypnosis and the placebo effect to our advantage,...
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How to Offer Help to Someone in a Crisis
When bad things happen to people we care about, it can be hard to feel anything...
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How to Have a Conversation With a Conspiracy Theorist Without Losing Your Mind
The moon landing was faked, #PizzaGate, September 11th was an inside job, Vince Foster was murdered...
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Use Disaster Psychology Strategies to Survive This Winter
For nearly a year, we’ve been living through a prolonged disaster. This is different from those...
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How I Learned to Stop Being So Jealous and Finally Get On With My Life
Jealousy and envy are two of the most common—yet negative and useless—emotions many of us have....
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How to Handle Being Bullied as an Adult
If you associate bullies with playgrounds and elementary school, that means you probably haven’t experienced one...
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How to Be a Gracious Winner
There are few things more personally gratifying than winning. This is true for pickup basketball games...
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How to Not Be a Sore Loser
Former Lifehacker writer Patrick Allan once explained how to avoid being a sore loser at competitive...
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How to Break Free From Your Mental Prisons, With Psychologist Dr. Edith Eger
This week we’re breaking free from our mental prisons of victimhood, fear, and hopelessness with help...
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What Mind Games Do You Play on Yourself During Exercise?
As I’m slogging through a run, I never tell myself I’m halfway. Everything I just did,...
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How to Get a Song Out of Your Head
When it comes to music, there’s a fine line between catchy and annoying. And sometimes, a...
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Use 'Psychological Distancing' to Process Your Anger
Aside from being incredibly frustrated that our modern society has essentially been brought down by a...
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Your AI Chatbot Therapist Isn’t Sure What It’s Doing
In 1966, Joseph Weizenbaum created Eliza, the first psychotherapy chatbot. Eliza’s programming was relatively simple: Engage...
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How to Stop Procrastinating, With Behavior Scientist BJ Fogg
Do you put things off ‘til the last minute? Are you one of the millions who...
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You Shouldn't Play Video Games To Fall Asleep (But Here's How Anyway)
We’ve all done it. One minute, you’re watching Jim say something mean to Dwight; the next,...
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How to Be Nice, With Comedian Josh Gondelman
Josh Gondelman, a.k.a. “The Nicest Guy in Comedy,” joins us this week to talk about what...
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How to End a Friendship (and How to Start One), With Dr. Miriam Kirmayer
We’re tackling tough friendship scenarios this week on The Upgrade with psychologist Miriam Kirmayer, who explains...
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How Can I Recharge My Depleted Motivation?
Even the most motivated people run out of steam sometimes. Maybe you’re exhausted or feel as...