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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Michael Puett: Break Anxiety and Addiction By Examining Your Patterns
[4:28] Who are you? Good question. Harvard professor Michael Puett explores the idea of the “self”, and h…
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Can We Change The Past?
[3:41] “The past is never where you think you left it.” – Katherine Anne Porter Join Jason Silva as h…
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The Psychology of Belief – Bias and the Brain
[3:11] In this clip, Dr. Lack addresses the biases that so often inform religious (and non-religious) worldviews. [Vi…
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Perception is reconstruction
[0:20] One coloured patch looks orange and the other looks brown but they are, in fact, physically identical colours. T…
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Kathleen McAuliffe: The Psychology (and Politics) of Disgust
[4:43] How easily grossed out are you? Your sensitivity to disgust reveals more about you than you’d probably be …
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You Are Two
[4:47] What happens when the brain is split in two? Some spooky answers when researched. [Source: CGPGrey YouTube li…
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The psychology behind irrational decisions
[4:38] Often people make decisions that are not “rational” from a purely economical point of view — meaning that …
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How the Mona Lisa became so overrated
[5:39] It’s not just the smile. There are a few real reasons Mona is so famous. Vox’s Phil Edwards looked in…
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Five monkeys – Human indoctrination
[1:25] An interesting look into how we humans can be indoctrinated with ideas and just flow with them not knowing any bet…
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