The Anthill 27: Confidence
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A podcast about confidence – from how it works in our brains and whether it can get us ahead at work to how confidence tricksters fool people into falling for their scams.
Articles on Confidence
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Societies that are happier than others would be reflecting more confidence and trust in their institutions and economic systems.
Research shows that exercise offers promise – as an alternative to prescription opioids – for relieving chronic pain.
Did you know there has never been a safer time to be a child in Canada? Research shows that kids need freedom outdoors to explore exhilaration and fear, and discover their own limits.
Confidence in sports, exams and other endeavours in life, can be counter-productive.
From ‘power poses’ to yoga poses, varying claims have been made about their effects on our health and happiness. But why do they work at all?
A revolt within the African National Congress against South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has reached new heights. He has survived, but the repercussions will be felt for some time to come.
Women are no longer eating for two – or one, for that matter.
We now have access to an Internet containing a vast store of information much bigger than any individual brain can carry - and that’s not always a good thing.
Simply filling out a bracket – even with random or uninformed choices – is enough to boost your confidence in success, and to get you to put more money on the line.
Opposition inspires more confidence in one’s position than support and also helps to turn judgments into actions. This helps explain why attack ads are a crucial tool in politicians’ arsenals.
Confidence is a strong correlate to test scores, but many low-scoring students are over-confident and should be more realistic about their abilities.
Heavier people are less likely to be hired and more likely to be fired – and some of this may begin at school.
This is the second article in a series, How we make decisions, which explores our decision-making processes. How well do we consider all factors involved in a decision, and what helps and what holds us…
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Lecturer in Psychology, University of Leicester
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Sex and Relationship Therapist, University of Westminster
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL
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Senior Lecturer in Management, City St George's, University of London
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Professor of Psychology, The Ohio State University
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Associate Professor at Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor Emeritus, University of Sydney; Professor, Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, Australian Catholic University
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Lecturer in Psychology, University of Essex
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Professor of Agricultural and Regional Economics, Penn State