Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

But even the sound of confidence matters.

Research published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin examined vocal signals such as falling intonation.

And across several experiments, falling rather than rising intonation could signal greater speaker confidence and, under some conditions, influence how listeners processed persuasive messages.

And think about how fascinating that is.

So this is where it gets really interesting, because here I'm gonna give you one of the most powerful practical things to take with you from this episode.

There's another study published in 1999 in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, where students who visualize the actual process of studying achieved higher exam scores.

Visualization has enormous power.

However, instead of focusing only on achieving the high score, visualizing studying, being immersed in the journey, being immersed in the process, was much more powerful.

And so researchers have studied this exact thing, and let's start with the biggest one, and that is a study about our bodies.

So in 2022, Hockey, Donovan, Overall, and Barlow published a study in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin called Body Image Projection Bias in Heterosexual Romantic Relationships.

And Anna, you know that I love a good study title here on the Sex Is Good podcast, and that is a great one.

It really is.

Needless to say, there's plenty of evidence out there that committing to work instead of taking time for ourselves has terrible effects on mental health.

The researchers published their work in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

The study was split into two parts.

The first part was a survey that helped them create what they call the leisure guilt proneness scale, or the LGP.

So you might be wondering, wait, that's intimidation, isn't it? Hold the question because a second study tells us what is actually happening in that room.

2015 Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

This is by Park, Young and Eastwick.

Six studies.

Boothby and Bones, B-O-H-N-S, found in 2021.

It was published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

People underestimate how good compliments and human interaction is and will make people feel and overestimate how awkward it's going to be to actually interact with other people.

So we get spun up in our heads that if we try and connect with someone or make that first comment... really basic steps for human connection that it's going to be awkward or people are going to look down on us or we're going to be imposing or upset people and then we don't realize how much the other person is likely in their own head freaking out about it too but when you actually make that connection and all of a sudden you're it's much more enjoyable and both people get the sort of dopamine and endorphin buzz that you get from these interactions because we're wired for it.