Sonja Lyubomirsky
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1,409 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 25 Jun
Sonja Lyubomirsky’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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by sharing more, listening more, showing curiosity with warmth and acceptance.
Yes, absolutely.
But also I'm kind of biased because I'm a talker.
So my oldest daughter once said to me, mom, you talk so much, I can't think.
So I do like to talk, but, and also in our culture where actually there's some research on this, you know, individualist cultures are more talking cultures.
Collectivist cultures like Asian cultures are more listening cultures.
But, you know, we can adapt these mindsets.
You know, you don't have to talk a mile a minute.
You know, it's just communication that matters.
I think my favorite one is that we asked people to act more extroverted for a week.
So we said to both introverts and extroverts, we said for the next week, act more extroverted.
We didn't actually use the word extroverted because it has connotations in our culture.
I think we said sociable, energetic, talkative.
And then for the week after, we asked people to act more introverted.
Again, using different words like deliberate and quiet and vice versa.
And we were shocked at what we found.
So we found the biggest effects we'd ever found in any of our interventions, people in the week that people acted more extroverted, they were so much happier and sort of everything improved.
During the introversion week, surprisingly, sometimes people actually got less happy or kind of no change.
And the second surprise was that this effect was the same for introverts and extroverts.
But, well, it's interesting that you thought that was the surprising part.
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