A More Just Future

In Dolly Chugh’s latest book, learn how to be more than a lifelong learner -- experience the clarity and liberation of being a lifelong unlearner

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The Person You Mean to Be

In this instant classic, find out why the path to being a better person begins with letting go of being a good person

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Dolly is a behavioral scientist who studies the psychology of good people

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Are we the people we mean to be?

Dolly Chugh is an award-winning psychologist and the Jacob B. Melnick Term Professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University. She studies how and why most of us, however well-intended, are still prone to race and gender bias, as well as what she calls “bounded ethicality.”

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How to Let Go of Being a "Good" Person - And Become a Better Person

In this TED Talk, Dolly explains the puzzling psychology of ethical behavior and shows how the path to becoming better starts with owning your mistakes

The Psychology of Good People

Social psychologist Dolly Chugh joins Dr. Phil on the Phil in the Blanks podcast to discuss how to embrace, rather than ignore, the contradictions of American history.

Finding the Value of Being a ‘Good-ish’ Person

Dolly speaks with Jenna Bush Hager and Molly Sims on The TODAY Show about why we need to let go of being good people so we can be better people.

What to Do When You’re the Only Woman in the Room

In the NYT, Dolly writes about how being the “only” can leave you feeling as an outsider when you just want to be in. Learn how to view your status as a strength, not a stigma.

The Many Benefits of a “Paradox Mindset”

Dolly speaks with Dan Harris about the patriot’s dilemma. How do you love your country while also acknowledging the painful and horrifying stuff that has happened in the past?

SXSW 2023 Featured Speaker: Can We Love a Country with a Complicated Past?

In this talk, Dolly spotlights actionable stories and science from her latest book, A More Just Future, and introduces the tools you need to be what she calls a “gritty patriot.”

How to Rethink What It Means to Be a Patriot, According to a Social Psychologist

In a CNN conversation with Angela Duckworth, Dolly talks about her book A More Just Future and offers seven tools grounded in psychological research that can help you learn—and unlearn—American history.

U.S. History Has Plenty of Good and Bad. Here’s How to See Both.

First, we have to understand why our minds make it so hard to have a nuanced view. Then, we have to get beyond that, Dolly writes in The Wall Street Journal.