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Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson — Is Self-Help a Cult? The Attention Economy and Slippery Slope of "Woo"
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Is Self-Help a Cult? The Attention Economy and Slippery Slope of "Woo"

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Forrest and Dr. Rick explore how well-intentioned self-help advice can drift away from science under the incentives of the attention economy, where overclaiming, alarmist framing, and “this one simple trick” outperforms nuance. They talk about how authority gets manufactured, how the algorithm encourages overclaiming,…

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