Dr. Nicholas Epley

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The Liz Moody Podcast · The One Habit That Will Instantly Make You More Likeable · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

That makes me feel pretty good about not just other people, but myself, but myself too.

So there are things that you can do.

So if you just take the sociometer as given that, you know, others' evaluations of us matter, well, just reaching out a little more often and creating some positive connections is going to help with that.

But the other thing is that getting a little more self-certainty so you're not looking to others quite as much also helps.

There are.

So lots of scientists have looked into the consequences of self-affirmation.

So if you're someone of my era with a little more gray hair on top, you will remember Stuart Smalley from Saturday Night Live, the self-affirmation guru.

I'm good enough.

I'm smart enough.

And gosh, darn it.

Wait, that works.

That kind of works.

So it's a little more complicated.

So the most famous researchers who have studied this are actually Stanford, Jeff Cohen, Greg Walton, Claude Steele.

Find that if you ask people to write about the values that are most important to them, that's how people do this.

Not the Stuart Smalley quite version, but explain why this value is really important and meaningful to you.

That self-affirmation makes you feel better about yourself.

Yeah.

So, right.

Well, one are these misplaced perspectives.

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