Psychology
Researcher Claims No Evidence Based Interventions Exist to Increase Self Esteem
Modern Wisdom
Why You Don’t Feel Loved (even when you are) - Sonja Lyubomirsky - #1115
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"I don't know of any good interventions to increase people's self-esteem. Well, interventions in the lab that have been actually evidence-based. I mean, of course I could come up with something that sounds good. That's the reason we need you. We need you to test whether or not my vibe coding of an intervention is actually good enough."
After 28 years of happiness research, Lyubomirsky stated she knows of no evidence-based lab interventions proven to increase self-esteem, despite the centrality of self-esteem to mental health. She emphasized the distinction between speculative advice that sounds good and interventions backed by experimental data. She suggested self-esteem may function as a sociometer—a lagging indicator of social feedback rather than something easily built in isolation.
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- Why You Don’t Feel Loved (even when you are) - Sonja Lyubomirsky - #1115
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