Emily Grossman: Why is Itching Contagious?
[2:28] Does watching this video make you itch? Dr Emily Grossman explains why the ‘social itch’ might have evolved…
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Leonard Mlodinow: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behaviour:
[18:43] Leonard Mlodinow engages the audience with a fascinating talk about how our own mind can be fooled by our own min…
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Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives
[18:39] Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, wheth…
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The power of the placebo effect
[4:37] The placebo effect is an unexplained phenomenon wherein drugs, treatments, and therapies that aren’t suppo…
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Sam Harris: The Self is an Illusion
[6:52] Sam Harris describes the properties of consciousness and how mindfulness practices of all stripes can be used t…
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Wegstock lectures 1: Dan Gilbert – Opening remarks
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Wegstock lectures 3: Timothy Wilson – Moral judgement
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Ready for this? Two Minds in One Brain
[6:53] Neuroscientist Giulio Tononi discusses the the bizarre phenomenon of “split-brain” patients w…
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Wegstock lectures 4: Jonathan Haidt – Moral judgement
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Wegstock lectures 5: Henk Aarts – Addiction / Habits
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