Cris Frith: Social Cognition
[8:39] Cris Frith’s primary research interest is in the applications of functional brain imaging to the stud…
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What Dark-Skinned People Will Never Tell You
[5:12] These standards of beauty travel. [Source: BuzzFeedVideo You Tube channel…
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Giselinde Kuipers: Beauty and inequality
[11:34] AN INEQUALITY THAT IS HARDLY EVER SPOKEN ABOUT… which makes me ask, do we really care? If we did, would we n…
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The Illusion of Truth
[8:24] If you repeat something enough times, it comes to feel good and true. [Source: Veritasium YouTube link]…
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Edward Bernays: Propaganda – How to Control What People Do
[8:30] This is an animated book summary video of Propaganda written by Edward Bernays. He was Sigmund Freud’s ne…
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What does science tell us about false confessions?
[2:57] Why would an innocent person accused of a crime confess? Saul Kassin, a psychology professor at the John Jay Coll…
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How a mathematician dissects a coincidence
[6:13] Can you unknot a twist of fate with logic? Vox’s Phil Edwards asked mathematician Joseph Mazur about his b…
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Would you use time travel to kill baby Hitler?
[8:01] Well? Would you? Vox’s Phil Edwards asked author James Gleick about the history of this unusual philosop…
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Step Into an Optical Illusion
[5:16] In Demon Hill, the rules of gravity don’t apply as you expect them to. Down is not down, exactly. The room, c…
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