A personal longitudinal study tracking 712 days of daily data found that emotional composure and well-being, rather than willpower, drive self-control and self-mastery. The author argues that feeling calm and collected enables better self-regulation, challenging the popular notion of iron willpower as the primary engine of self-discipline.
A psychology study published in the Journal of Open Inquiry in the Behavioral Sciences found that everyday people do not find words targeted by institutional harmful language guides offensive, and reading such words in stories does not negatively affect psychological well-being. The research challenges the reasoning behind these guides, which aim to ban terms like 'master bedroom' and 'blind review' based on claims they cause harm, but provide limited evidence that they actually do.