Yuval Noah Harari: Nationalism vs. globalism: the new political divide
[1:00:08] How do we make sense of today’s political divisions? In a wide-ranging conversation full of insight, …
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Tali Sharot: How Cognitive Biases Bend Reality: Private Optimism vs. Public Despair
[8:55] Think you’re not an optimist? Neuroscience begs to differ. Dr. Tali Sharot explains that 80% of people global…
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Robert Sapolsky: Are Humans Hardwired to Be Cruel to Each Other?
[6:40] Robert Sapolsky has a bone to pick with oxytocin, or rather the public’s perception of oxytocin. It is the …
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Socioeconomic Disparities, Children and Brain Development
[57:59] Dr. Kimberly Noble, a neuroscientist and pediatrician at Teachers College, Columbia University, will discu…
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Why You Still Have Time To Change Career
[3:04] We often feel as if we might have run out of time to change career. That’s because we usually have a wrong underst…
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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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Steven Pinker: The Elephant, the Emperor, and the Matzo Ball
[43:38] William James Fellow Award Address recorded May 2016 in Chicago at the 28th Annual Convention of the Associati…
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Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde: Money and Neuroeconomics
[13:08] What is the correlation between, money, familiarity and the self explained. [Video and text source Serious Sc…
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Dan Ariely: The Science of Happiness, Motivation, and Meaning
[7:31] It turns out there’s quite a bit of cognitive dissonance impairing our understanding of motivation and h…
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Cross-Coursera Dishonesty Debate
[1:08:54] Watch the legendary moral philosopher Peter Singer, the distinguished psychologist Paul Bloom, and the ex…
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