Dr. Shannon Sauer-Zavala: Perfectionism and People-Pleasing
Episode S2025 · Ep 297 30 min 23s

Dr. Shannon Sauer-Zavala: Perfectionism and People-Pleasing

Perfectionism and people-pleasing usually get treated as personality: this is simply how I am. Dr. Shannon Sauer-Zavala's research says otherwise. Personality traits move over a lifetime on their own, and there is evidence that a person can speed that up on purpose. Our guest is Dr. Shannon Sauer-Zavala, a licensed clinical psychologist and a professor of psychology whose research is on developing interventions that shift the traits that are no longer serving someone. Much of her clinical wor...

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