Ashley Gearhardt: The brain reward system and food addiction
[7:50] Ashley Gearhardt, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Mi…
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10 Evil Social Experiments
[7:34] Throughout the course of the 20th century, there were disturbing experiments taking place all over the world. F…
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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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Does ‘Power Dressing’ Actually Work?
[3:16] Some people even think that what you wear (especially feminist sweatshirts) can produce this kind of confidenc…
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Are musical tastes cultural or hardwired in the brain?
[3:20] A new study out of MIT and Brandeis University suggests musical preferences are cultural in origin and not hardw…
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Argument From Consciousness Debunked
[8:20] We’ve all heard the claim… the phenomenon of consciousness is so complicated, so magnificent, so extraord…
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The competitive nature between twins
[4:25] SO FUNNY! the twins realize they look alike, but then Alexis has a meltdown upon realizing Ava is 1-minute older&…
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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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The psychology of narcissism
[5:09] Narcissism isn’t just a personality type that shows up in advice columns; it’s actually a set of traits clas…
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The Paradox of Choice: Why You’re Unhappy With Your Decisions
[4:59] From the observations of psychologist Barry Schwarz from his book The Paradox of Choice [Source: THE AWESOME LI…
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