Cultural narratives of successful American Dream strivers celebrate hard work and talent; stories of unsuccessful strivers are rarely told. Here we examined attributions for success and failure to achieve social mobility despite 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 levels of effort and talent.

My episode of the Clearer Thinking podcast is out. It's a wide-ranging conversation! First half: psych of time for selves & societies. Then we discuss politics & academic groupthink, free speech, censorship & taboo, ingroup dissent, and more. Listen here: bit.ly/ctp-198