CRITICAL THINKING – Cognitive Biases: Mental Accounting
[3:36] The psychologist Laurie Santos (Yale University) explains the phenomenon of mental accounting: why we don…
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CRITICAL THINKING – Cognitive Biases: Pricing Biases
[3:40] Laurie Santos (Yale University) examines how people’s economic choices tend to confuse price and value…
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Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh
[20:29] Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh is the ultimate video for exploring the sweatshop issue. Using Nike as a cas…
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Wegstock lectures 10: Thalia Wheatley – Human emotions
[20:04] [Video source: Joe Paxton You Tube channel]…
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Wegstock lectures 16: Robin Vallacher – Social behavior research
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Daniel Kahneman: Thinking fast and slow
[29:43] In order to improve everyday thinking, we need to understand the difficulties we’re operating under an…
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The Prisoner’s Dilemma
[5:22] The prisoner’s dilemma is a paradox in decision analysis in which two individuals acting in their own b…
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The terrifying trolley dilema
[3:46] The Trolley Problem is a thought experiment in ethics. The general form of the problem is this: There is a runaway …
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Interesting?
[2:00] We don’t really want what we think we desire, says philosopher Slavoj Žižek. [Video source: Big ThinkÂ…
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The Psychology of Happiness and Feedback
[3:32] Sheila Heen, a Partner at Triad Consulting Group and a lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, explains the psycho…
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