Bruce Hood: Mine! The Power of Ownership
[6:45] Ownership is a peculiar human preoccupation which defines who we are. Ownership controls our lives and yet, ver…
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Derren Brown: Investigates Remote Viewing With “The Expert”
[6:35] Derren meets a psychologist, Dr Carr, who says he is able to see places across time, and enter the mind of another h…
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Eric Schwitzgebel: How Belief Systems Affect Believers
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The Feynman Technique: How to Study Way More Effectively
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The Uncomfortable Effort of Thinking
[12:10] How the brain works, how we learn, and why we sometimes make stupid mistakes. [Video and text source: Veritasiu…
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Plato’s best (and worst) ideas
[4:48] Few individuals have influenced the world and many of today’s thinkers like Plato. He created the first Weste…
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New York City’s Placebo Buttons and The Post Hoc Fallacy
[1:22] Placebo buttons surround you, pretending to do your bidding, learn more about things like this in You Are Now Les…
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Watch The Dots Disappear
[1:00] If you focus very carefully on the blinking red dot in the center of the spinning circle, you will notice somethin…
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25 Things Psychology Tells You About Yourself
[8:32] There are few things in existence more fascinating than the human mind. In fact, apart from the depths of space, i…
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