Kathleen Vohs

An enormous amount of money and schooling has been built on that assumption.

In two thousand and three, Roy Baumeister and his colleagues, Jennifer Campbell, Joachim Krueger, and Kathleen Vohs, reviewed the actual evidence for it in one of the most deflating papers in modern psychology.

What they found was that the correlations between self-esteem and real outcomes do not show self-esteem producing those outcomes.

People who do well tend to feel good about themselves afterward.

Let's get to know our patterns of the brain, our behavior, our day-to-day activities in a, in a different-- from a different point of view.

In the year twenty twenty-one, a psychologist named Roy Baumeister, working with colleague halen Brekhitser, Bre-Bre-Brekavski, Katherine Frankner, and Kathleen Vohs, published a review paper with a blunt, unforgettable title, "Bad Is Stronger Than Good".

They had gone through thousands of existing psychology studies across dozens of areas; memory, relationship, learning, mood, decisions making, um, health, even how people from first impression of, of strangers looking for a consistent pattern.

What they found was remarkably consistent.