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#751: Why Self-Worth Predicts Your Income More Than Your SAT Score Does, with Marisa Franco

Friday, September 18, 2026Paula PantView original
Marisa Franco built her career studying friendship and belonging. Her latest research pulled her somewhere unexpected: the connection between self-worth and net worth. In her data, people with high self-worth and high SAT scores earned close to double the income of people with low SAT scores. People with low self-worth showed no such pattern —...