The Atlas of Emotions
[59:14] For the past several years, UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine Research Fellow Dr. Eve Ekman has been c…
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Matthew Lieberman: The social brain and its superpowers
[17:58] Neuroscientist Matthew Lieberman explains that through his studies he’s learned that our kryptonite …
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Elizabeth Dunn: Happiness and Money
[14:54] Elizabeth Dunn conducts experimental research on self-knowledge and happiness with a focus on how people can …
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Alain de Botton: On Love
[1:12:48] Twenty-first century depictions of love and marriage are shaped by a set of Romantic myths and misconceptio…
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What It’s Like Inside Our Minds
[3:21] It’s remarkably hard to imagine what it might be like inside our minds. But doing so helps us to see that the real …
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What our Wedding Vows should Say
[5:38] Some of the trouble of long-term relationships comes from the vows we say at the beginning. We should learn to ref…
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Empathy, Is It All It’s Cracked Up to Be?
[56:43] Empathy is typically seen as wonderful, central to cooperation, caring, and morality. We want to have empathi…
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Tom Whipple: How to Win Games and Beat People
[57:48] It’s the not the taking part that counts, it’s the winning. Tom Whipple has spoken to preposterously overq…
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The Gap Between Who We are and Who We Want to Be
[3:45] It is easiest to spot the people who are trying to change their habits, says Sam Gosling. [Video and text source: B…
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Why We Go Cold On Our Partners
[5:20] Going cold on our partners is often a sign not that we have stopped caring, but that we are – somewhere deep d…
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