Thread by @MWStory

Are any psychologists studying individual level cheemsing? Something like 'status homeostasis' - the internal alarm which starts to sound when we begin to achieve 'too much' or think 'too big'. People talking themselves out of applying for better jobs etc

It seems basically true that among richer people in richer countries the practical limits of what's possible for someone to achieve are rarely the barrier to improving a life, and psychological limits like "comfort zone" or anxieties about status gains play a much bigger role

There are massive rewards for those able to switch if off (and certain cultural scripts can make you and your whole society richer by drowning it out) but judging by revealed preferences it must be really hard to do, so who is studying how to do that?

Is the territory really just ceded to the LGATs? The Human Potential movement? Maybe they were right and there is all this free distributed value which only requires equally distributed psychological reframing to unlock

Locus of control is interesting, probably necessary but not sufficient? I think you could have high LOC and still cheems yourself out of life's treasures

https://twitter.com/econ_inclined/status/1429025769846677509?s=19

I genuinely wonder if this is true, and the greatest benefit of that kind of schooling. As with most education stuff it's incredibly hard to tell what's going on as studies are so heavily influenced by the cope needs of the researchers who conduct them

https://twitter.com/Klingsortas/status/1429019418244395014?s=19