Daniel Kahneman: Thinking fast and slow
[29:43] In order to improve everyday thinking, we need to understand the difficulties we’re operating under an…
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Crash Course Philosophy #46: What Is A Good Life?
[9:17] In our final episode of Crash Course Philosophy, we consider what it means to live a good life. We’ll look at the …
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PLATO ON: The Allegory of the Cave
[6:16] Plato made up an enduring story about why philosophy matters based on an allegory about a cave… [Source: The Sc…
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Crash Course Psychology #22: Measuring Personality
[11:07] How would you measure a personality? What, exactly, is the self? Well, as you’ve come to expect, it̵…
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Why Scientists Need To Study Paranormal Events
[14:31] For a significant amount of human history we used to believe that the sun revolved around Earth and the Earth was …
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Crash Course Psychology #24: Brains Vs. Bias
[11:03] In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank takes a look at WAIS and WISC intelligence tests and how bias ca…
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Crash Course Psychology #37: Social Thinking
[10:47] Why do people do bad things? Is it because of the situation or who they are at their core? In this week’s epi…
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Crash Course Psychology #38: Social Influence
[10:07] Why do people sometimes do bad things just because someone else told them to? And what does the term Groupthink m…
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The Prisoner’s Dilemma
[5:22] The prisoner’s dilemma is a paradox in decision analysis in which two individuals acting in their own b…
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The terrifying trolley dilema
[3:46] The Trolley Problem is a thought experiment in ethics. The general form of the problem is this: There is a runaway …
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