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The Psychology of your 20s

388. The psychology of fashion & personal style

23 Feb 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

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This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human. In the middle of the night, Saskia awoke in a haze. Her husband, Mike, was on his laptop. What was on his screen would change Saskia's life forever. I said, I need you to tell me exactly what you're doing. And immediately, the mask came off. You're supposed to be safe. That's your home. That's your husband.

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Listen to Betrayal Season 5 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Over the last couple years, didn't we learn that the folding chair was invented by black people because of what happened in Alabama?

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This Black History Month, the podcast Selective Ignorance with Mandy B. unpacks black history and culture with comedy, clarity, and conversations that shake the status quo. The Crown Act in New York was signed in July of 2019, and that is a bill that was passed to prohibit discrimination based on hairstyles associated with racism.

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To hear this and more, listen to Selective Ignorance with Mandy B from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can scroll the headlines all day and still feel empty. I'm Ben Higgins, and if you can hear me is where culture meets the soul.

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Honest conversations about identity, loss, purpose, peace, faith, and everything in between. Celebrities, thinkers, everyday people, some have answers. Most are still figuring it out. And if you've ever felt like there has to be more to the story, this show is for you. Listen to If You Can Hear Me on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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What if mind control is real? If you could control the behavior of anybody around you, what kind of life would you have? Can you hypnotically persuade someone to buy a car? When you look at your car, you're going to become overwhelmed with such good feelings. Can you hypnotize someone into sleeping with you? I gave her some suggestions to be sexually aroused.

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Can you get someone to join your cult? NLP was used on me to access my subconscious. Mind Games, a new podcast exploring NLP, aka neurolinguistic programming. Is it a self-help miracle, a shady hypnosis scam, or both? Listen to Mind Games on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You know Roald Dahl. He thought up Willy Wonka and the BFG.

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But did you know he was a spy? In the new podcast, The Secret World of Roald Dahl, I'll tell you that story and much, much more. What? You probably won't believe it either. Was this before he wrote his stories? It must have been. Okay, I don't think that's true. I'm telling you. The guy was a spy.

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Listen to The Secret World of Roald Dahl on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Chapter 2: What is the psychology of personal style?

934.106 - 955.263 Gemma Spake

They seem to represent themselves as organized, as reliable, as punctual. They use fashion to signal competence and order. you want to know the weirdest fashion psychology fact I learned the other day? If someone is wearing a wristwatch, that can actually tell you something about their personality.

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955.383 - 973.634 Gemma Spake

So a 2015 study looking at, I think over 700 people found that people who wear wristwatches are more conscientious, more responsible, more rule following compared to people who don't wear wristwatches, they're typically less conscientious and they're less likely to follow the rules. So there you go.

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If you want to look good in a job interview, show up wearing a wristwatch because it signals a lot of really good things. It's just so weird how fashion and personality kind of connects in that way. Something as simple as a wristwatch, that's like a peek into who you are as a person. Two final conclusions from that same study, just because it was just such a magnificent one.

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We have to go into detail on it a little bit more. People who are high in agreeableness, they were also more likely to wear less traumatic or unusual clothing. So they're more likely to want to blend in or wear traditional clothing. Obviously, they want to be friends with everyone. They're agreeable.

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Anything that makes them stick out or makes them controversial is not something they're going to be leaning towards. And people who are high in neuroticism actually used clothing as a form of emotional regulation or as security blankets. So apparently these individuals are more likely to be self-conscious.

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People high in neuroticism are more likely to be self-conscious and to engage in body surveillance. So they may actually use specific clothing styles to manage their body image. And on top of that, their social anxiety or general anxiety, often opting for safe choices, often opting for things that are comfortable or that avoid drawing unwanted scrutiny or judgments from other people.

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all the big five and like how your measurement on that might turn the dial on your clothing choices. Essentially, it's this thing we've been repeating. What you choose to wear can be a really subtle personality cue. And now that is not permission to go and judge or assess every single person you are meeting based on this profile.

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Like that must, like if they're wearing a wristwatch or if they're not wearing a wristwatch, like that must say that they aren't a kind person or whatever. These aren't rules to follow. People can very easily be outliers or shift from the norm here. It's just one singular peak into fashion psychology.

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In the middle of the night, Saskia awoke in a haze. Her husband, Mike, was on his laptop. What was on his screen would change Saskia's life forever. I said, I need you to tell me exactly what you're doing. And immediately, the mask came off. You're supposed to be safe. That's your home. That's your husband. To keep this secret for so many years, he's like a seasoned pro.

Chapter 3: How do childhood experiences shape our clothing choices?

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Fans say it's like finally getting a user manual for your brain. It's about engineering consciousness. Mind Games is the story of NLP. It's crazy cast of disciples and the fake doctor who invented it at a new age commune and sold it to guys in suits. He stood trial for murder and got acquitted. The biggest mind game of all? NLP might actually work. This is wild.

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Listen to Mind Games on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You know Roald Dahl, the writer who thought up Willy Wonka, Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know he was also a spy? Was this before he wrote his stories? It must have been.

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Our new podcast series, The Secret World of Roald Dahl, is a wild journey through the hidden chapters of his extraordinary, controversial life. His job was literally to seduce the wives of powerful Americans. What? And he was really good at it. You probably won't believe it either. Okay, I don't think that's true. I'm telling you, the guy was a spy.

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Did you know Dahl got cozy with the Roosevelts, played poker with Harry Truman, and had a long affair with a congresswoman? And then he took his talents to Hollywood, where he worked alongside Walt Disney and Alfred Hitchcock before writing a hit James Bond film. How did this secret agent wind up as the most successful children's author ever?

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And what darkness from his covert past seeped into the stories we read as kids? The true story is stranger than anything he ever wrote. Listen to The Secret World of Roald Dahl on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

2816.889 - 2832.857 Gemma Spake

If you want to reclaim your personal style, here are four really easy ways to do it. Number one, reduce the wardrobe clutter. You know those pieces that I was talking about that we own and we would never wear?

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um but we just keep them because they're cool or because we bought them because they were like the trend and like we want to be the kind of person who's going to wear them but we don't for me it's like this big fluffy hat and a couple other things but the fluffy hat in particular these pieces are mental clutter and they are blocking your personal style by increasing a sense of decision fatigue essentially giving you more options to consider and

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when that option isn't really a true option, but you feel like you have to consider it. You feel like it's kind of there. And when you do finally choose it, you're never going to be comfortable in it anyways. So basically you're just slowing down the process of getting dressed every morning. So I need you to do a closet purge.

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When you do a closet purge, what I need you to ask yourself is, have I worn this in the past three months or have I worn it at all? And if it's not something like a big winter coat or like your wedding dress or a summer dress, you know you're going to wear heaps when the sun is back up. sell it on Depop, give it to a friend, sell it on Vinted. Start not from scratch, but from your favorites.

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