The Dirty, Smelly History of Soap (w/ Cody Cassidy)
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Cody Cassidy is back to talk about how soap was invented. You\\u2019ll also learn about a bias that makes people believe poor people have thicker skin, and how good anxiety can help you get things done.
Good Anxiety Can Help You Get Things Done by Reuben Westmaas
- Must We Suffer to Succeed? | Journal of Individual Differences | Vol 38, No 2. (2017). Journal of Individual Differences. https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1027/1614-0001/a000228
- Dolan, E. W. (2017, July 8). People can use anxiety to motivate themselves, study finds. PsyPost; PsyPost. https://www.psypost.org/2017/07/people-can-use-anxiety-motivate-study-finds-49274
Society Perceives the Poor to Have a "Thick Skin" Compared to Others by Kelsey Donk
- Society perceives the poor as less affected by distress than those with more means. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/puww-spt081720.php
- Cheek, N. N., & Shafir, E. (2020). The thick skin bias in judgments about people in poverty. Behavioural Public Policy, 1\\u201326. https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2020.33
Additional resources from author Cody Cassidy:
- Pick up \\u201cWho Ate the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History\\u201d on Amazon: https://amazon.com
- Cody Cassidy\\u2019s articles on Wired: https://www.wired.com/author/cody-cassidy/
- Cody Cassidy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CodyCassidy
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