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Scott Barry Kaufman's 7 Lessons from 11 Years of Podcasting

Scott Barry Kaufman closes 11 years and 478 episodes of The Psychology Podcast with seven lessons on human potential, personality change, and creativity. He argues neuroticism is the easiest Big Five trait to shift and openness the hardest, and that lasting change comes from habits, not willpower (09:06, 15:22).

December 4, 2025 · 8 min read

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Alia Crum on How Mindset Shapes Stress and Hunger

Stanford psychologist Alia Crum finds that beliefs about food, stress, illness, and genes can alter body chemistry itself. Labeling an identical milkshake indulgent rather than sensible triples the drop in the hunger hormone ghrelin (12:37), and believing one carries a low-efficiency exercise gene lowers real oxygen conversion regardless of actual genotype (47:10).

November 20, 2025 · 7 min read

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