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The Cult Assessment

Tell whether anyone (you or someone you know) is in a harmful cult, and better understand what makes a group a cult.

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10

The Astrology Challenge

Test yourself to see if you can figure out which astrological natal chart out of five belongs to a given person, based on a large amount of information about them.

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12

Clearer Thinking Paths

Get personalized recommendations for which of our tools will be most helpful to you and track your progress in a dashboard.

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15

The Ultimate Personality Test

Get a personalized report with your Big Five, Enneagram, and Jungian Type (inspired by MBTI)—the three most popular frameworks—all in one test!

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15

Nuanced Thinking Techniques

Learn to recognize 3 common binary thinking traps and learn the nuanced thinking techniques you can use to combat them.

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20

Pathkeeper

Keep track of your goals and your progress, so that you can more reliably achieve what you set out to do. Includes optional mechanisms for accountability.

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5

Practice Self-Compassion

Take a quiz to see how self-compassionate you are, then learn and practice two simple techniques to help develop more self-compassion.

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25

The Art of Collaboration

Get tips for better collaborative structures, and discover our checklist for effective collaboration.

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14

Long-Term Future Quiz

Get a glimpse into the opportunities that may await humanity if we can avoid disasters such as nuclear war and extreme climate change. Invite your imagination to take flight with 11 multiple-choice questions.

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15

Artificial Intelligence Quiz

Test your knowledge of artificial intelligence and some of the risks it poses!

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15

Your Quarterly Life Review

Most of us can benefit from regularly reflecting on our lives, but few people make the time to do so. This tool is designed to make that easier.

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20

Uncover Your Guiding Principles

Build a list of your personal principles, to keep them top of mind and make better decisions, faster.

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10

Program Yourself to Improve Your life

Train yourself to implement positive actions in your day-to-day life with simple "if-then" rules

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12

Reframing Negative Emotions

Learn how to reframe the way you experience upsetting situations, how to find alternatives to self-criticism, and how to learn what you've used in past experiences to move forward

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15

Rhetorical Fallacies

Bad arguments are all around us. Train yourself to instantly detect common reasoning errors that often go unnoticed.

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25

Seeking Outside Criticism

Make a plan to ask for specific, honest criticism on an aspect of yourself that you'd like to improve

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6

Surpass Self-Limiting Beliefs

False or exaggerated beliefs about ourselves can hold us back and harm our relationships. Learn to overcome them with three simple strategies!

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30

The Belief Challenger

Our beliefs determine our behaviors and how we interact with others. Use this program to refine your beliefs and form more accurate views.

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11

The Confrontation Aid

Learn the skills to have an effective confrontation using techniques recommended by experts in conflict resolution

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15

The Entrepreneur Test

Take our test to get a customized report on your strengths and weaknesses as a potential startup founder. Learn if you have the traits and skills you need to succeed!

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30

The Intrinsic Values Test

Find out what you value most in the world, and compare those values to others', with this fun, comprehensive quiz

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20

The Question of Evidence

There is more to interpreting evidence than you might think. Learn to improve your predictions by understanding evidence on a deeper level using Bayes' rule.

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35

The Sunk Cost Fallacy

When we have invested heavily in a project, it can be difficult to evaluate it objectively. Learn about why this happens and how to combat it.

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50

Value Of Your Time Calculator

Get a custom report that will help you make decisions based on the value of your time, like whether to take on extra part-time work or hire your own help.

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10

What Makes an Effective Goal?

Powered by many of the most significant discoveries from the science of motivation and built by a world expert, this tool teaches you how to set the most effective goals.

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30

When Are You Overconfident?

This quick tool is designed to give you a clearer sense of how you rate your own reasoning chops - and how your confidence compares to others.

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15

Your Greatest Sources of Pleasure

Discover what brings you the most joy and personal life satisfaction and review how to experience them more often

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15

Replace Unhelpful Coping Strategies

Learn about which coping behaviors harm more than they help, and make a plan for replacing your own unhelpful coping mechanisms with a strategy that will benefit you in the long-term!

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15

40 Winks: Better Sleep Made Easy

What can you do to achieve the optimal sleep experience? This tool creates a set of personalized recommendations based on your specific situation

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10

Become A Great Listener

This tool teaches the skill of Active Listening, a strategy commonly used by therapists, helpline volunteers, and hostage negotiators to help people feel supported and understood

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15

Building Happiness Habits

Pair these tried and tested happiness techniques with simple activity triggers to rapidly improve your day-to-day experience

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15

Can You Detect Weak Arguments?

Find out how well you can spot misleading rhetoric and recognize your own bias using real-world examples

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12

Change Behavior for the Better

Based on the "Ten Conditions for Change" framework, this tool walks you through all the steps required for successfully changing your behavior for the better

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20

Credentialist Test

Do you care about formal qualifications? Take this mini-test to find out where you fall on the Credentialist to Non-Credentialist spectrum.

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4

Defining Emotions

This tool helps you reflect on the meaning of the words we use to describe emotions and the sensations that accompany them, with the aim of helping you better articulate how you feel

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20

Enhancing Creativity

This module teaches simple techniques to help you form new creative habits and applications

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20

Fail-Safing Your Plans

In this mini-course, you'll learn how to use a technique called Prospective Hindsight to think about your future plans with more depth and clarity

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30

Get Going: Overcome Procrastination

Tips for being more productive for those who frequently procrastinate on personal or professional projects

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20

How Airtight Are Your Estimates?

Are your guesses truly independent? Or is it possible that you're being manipulated by irrelevant information without your knowledge?

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12

Improve Your Frequency Predictions

A quick quiz to test your ability to estimate the frequency of events and compare your scores to others'.

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15

Learn Your Philosophical Beliefs

Take this quiz to learn what philosophical beliefs you hold, and discover whether these beliefs are predicted by your psychological traits

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25

Leaving Your Mark on the World

Learn to make the most of your charitable contributions with this detailed and informative guide.

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20

Lifetime Aspirations

Want to make a plan for accompanying your biggest dreams? Use this tool to become happier and to more easily achieve your long-term goals.

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20

Mental Traps

Scientists have discovered a slew of systematic errors in human thought. Learn about a few of the mind's mistakes in this brief introduction.

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10

Overconfidence Analyzer

Discover how accurate your confidence levels are likely to be for any skill.

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18

Flexible Thinking

Learn the ability to consider situations and ideas from different perspectives and develop a more positive perspective, especially against negative self-talk.

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10

Predict Psychological Correlations

Test how accurate your understanding of psychology is by practicing and improving your ability to make predictions.

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10

Productive Disagreements

Learn techniques to have constructive arguments that are beneficial for your relationships.

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15

Retrocaster

Take the challenge to identify the correct global trends on a variety of topics - from Africa's future population to the evolution of CO2 emissions in the US.

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15

Faulty Reasoning Quiz

Can you spot bad reasoning? Learn about five types of faulty arguments and take a quiz to see how well you can spot them!

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15

Biosafety Quiz

Uncover the history of pandemics, test your biosafety knowledge, and learn essential steps to safeguard humanity's future.

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15

Make Your Work More Joyful

Take this quiz to work out in which areas you can improve your work experience, and craft a plan to do it.

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10

Kind and Effective Communication

Learn and practice principles of non-violent communication, to build stronger relationships, resolve conflicts, and improve your self-understanding and awareness.

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15

Effective Trust Repair

Learn how to repair your relationships by constructing or requesting effective apologies.

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15

Emotional Obstacles to Doing Good

If you want to make the world a better place, emotions can both help and hinder your progress. Use this tool to understand and overcome these challenges!

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15

World's Biggest Problems Quiz

Test your knowledge of some of the world's most pressing problems: global health, animal welfare, and existential risks to humanity.

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15

Political Bias Test

Learn to spot and overcome your political biases and test your policy knowledge with this fun, free quiz

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15

Question Your Identity

Why do you believe what you do? Learn how you see yourself influences the beliefs that you choose to hold

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20

Resolve Harmful Situations

Facing a challenging or harmful situation? This tool will help you think through your options, using a simple decision-making framework.

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10

Savor Your Life

Learn a skill recommended by positive pyschology to increase satisfaction and deepen your happiness. Lift your spirits and create lasting positive feelings!

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15

Skeptical Seekers

Take this mini-test to find out whether you have the two personality traits that are essential for discovering true things about the world

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4

Tactics for Happier Living

Take this test to get a personalized set of activities that can support you in adding fulfillment and meaning to your life.

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12

The Common Misconceptions Test

Separate fact from B.S. in this fun quiz that asks you to identify the misconceptions among 30 common beliefs.

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15

The Decision Advisor

Facing a challenging, complex, or emotionally-charged decision? Try this tool for organizing your thoughts and weighing your options numerically

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15

The Hidden Meaning of Sounds

Learn about how certain sounds can have a particular connotation or meaning by finding out what sound fits your personality best

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10

The Planning Fallacy

Ever notice that projects usually take longer than people predict? Understand the science behind this phenomenon and become a more reliable planner.

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50

The Relationship Review

Examine different aspects of your relationship with a partner, close friend, or family member using an open, non-judgmental approach

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15

Understanding Bayes Theorem

Learn the mathematical rule that governs the way statisticians and scientists handle evidence

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10

What Causes Match Your Values?

Find a charity that matches your altruistic priorities and is highly effective at advancing its chosen mission

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10

What to Know About Suicide

Tips on how to recognize if someone is at risk of suicide and advice on how to speak to them about it from experts in suicide prevention

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20

When To Stop Exploring

How do you make important life decisions when faced with uncertainty? Learn a simple technique that lets you choose between other options or committing to what you know

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20

Your Primal World Beliefs

Discover the beliefs that inform your personal worldview, whether you see the world as more safe than dangerous, more interesting than boring, or more meaningful than empty.

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6

Spark the Mood You Want

Create A Mood Association: learn to generate a mental state of your choice in the situation you want using a quick, reliable technique.

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Achieve Your Goals

Create a personalized, step-by-step plan for your chosen goal and set a regular schedule of reminders so that you can keep track of the milestones that you achieve

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20

Boost Your Productivity

Invest in an effective work style and use our productivity formula to plan your own productivity system that incorporates techniques for optimizing your time, efficiency, and value

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25

Calibrate Your Judgment

This free program contains thousands of question sets to help you become adept at making well-calibrated judgments. It also tracks your progress over time so you can see how you improve!

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30

Career Fulfillment Diagnostic

Using the Japanese concept of Ikigai, "a reason for getting up in the morning", this tool helps you identify which aspects of your career you find fulfilling

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15

Charity Effectiveness

See if you can guess which social interventions had a positive effect, a negative effect, or no effect, based on a short description.

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4

Daily Ritual: A Habit Creation System

This tool builds you a custom habit-formation strategy in three simple steps, so you can change your daily routine for the better

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15

Design Your Own Self-Experiment

Devise informal experiments for improving your everyday experience and personal routines, with a little help from this handy tool.

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10

Explanation Freeze

How do you interpret uncertain events? This mini-course teaches you how to look past your first explanation and get closer to the truth

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30

Gender Continuum Test

Take this fun test to learn about the relationship between gender and personality, based on data from over 15,000 people! Learn about yourself with this gender stereotypes / gender role test.

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30

Guess Which Experiments Replicate

Can you guess which of these high-profile experiments were legit?

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15

How Rational Are You, Really?

Learn which of 16 reasoning styles you use, your overall level of rationality, and what you can do now to improve your rationality skills

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8

Is Your Memory Like A Photograph?

Discover whether you retain a faithful representation of the events you witness with these two, quick memory tests

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20

Learning From Mistakes

Learning from mistakes is challenging. Try our approach and you can rebound from your mistakes and carry on as an even better person.

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25

Life Changing Questions

Answer these open-ended questions (alone or with others) to learn new, important insights about yourself.

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30

Managing Arguments in Relationships

Learn how to navigate arguments effectively and kindly using a situation of your choosing

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20

Mood Boosters

Brighten your disposition fast with scientifically-tested exercises that can improve your mood and and dispel the blues.

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2

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