The key to easing your doubts is — perhaps counterintuitively — more doubt, study finds ^17.5%

CBC Radio - By Rosie Fernandez - 1/16/2026, 7:42 PM

Appeal to Authority 29.5% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 28.4% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 15.8%

If you have your sights set on big goals this year, like running a marathon or writing your bar exam, you may be grappling with feelings of doubt. “In my previous research, I had shown that doubt really kills commitment to goals. And so I began asking the question of what might kill doubt,” Patrick Carroll, a professor of psychology at... more