Wellbeing

Ep 222. Vanessa Bohns: You Have More Influence Than You Think

Ep 222. Vanessa Bohns: You Have More Influence Than You Think

Vanessa Bohns is a social psychologist and professor of organizational behavior at Cornell University. Her new book is You Have More Influence Than You Think: How We Underestimate our Power of Persuasion and Why it Matters. Stew talks with Vanessa Bohns about eye-opening research on how people undervalue the impact they have on others and what this means for our lives at work, at home, and in the community. They review how to ask for help, negotiate boundaries , persuade others, how embarrassment informs morality…[Click for more]

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Ep 101: James Pawelski and Suzann Pileggi Pawelski: Happy Together

Ep 101: James Pawelski and Suzann Pileggi Pawelski: Happy Together

Professor James Pawelski and his wife Suzann Pileggi Pawelski are co-authors of Happy Together: Using the Science of Positive Psychology to Build Love That Lasts. He is Professor of Practice and Director of Education in the Positive Psychology Center at UPENN. James and Suzie talk with Stew about how to make relationships last by focusing on one’s own strengths and one’s partners’ strengths…[Click for more]

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