Research Bites are 1-page summaries of positive psychology research. Many were papers assigned as reading in my Harvard Extension Psychology Masters program. Others I’ve found in my endless rabbit holes of searching for evidence-based skills.
Principle Self-Control is associated with a lot of varied, positive life outcomes. Quote “Self-control as measured by our scale is linked to beneficial, positive outcomes across remarkably diverse domains.”Tangney, J.…
Principle Practicing self-control doesn’t increase your self-control. Quote “Despite high levels of adher- ence to the training tasks, there was no effect of training on any measure of self-control. Trained…
Principle: Quizzing yourself helps you retain information longer. “Practicing retrieval shortly after learning can slow the forgetting process.” “If you read a piece of text through twenty times, you will…