The Psychology of Happiness and Feedback
[3:32] Sheila Heen, a Partner at Triad Consulting Group and a lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, explains the psycho…
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How the Languages We Speak Shape the Ways We Think
[11:31] Do speakers of different languages think differently? Does learning new languages change the way you think? D…
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Ralph Adolphs: The Social Brain
[15:16] Ralph Adolphs obtained his Ph.D. at Caltech in 1993, subsequently conducted postdoctoral work with Antonio D…
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Milgram Obedience Study
[9:53] The infamous Milgram experiment, highlighting how easy it is for normal, everyday people can obey those higher …
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The Science Of Witness Identification
[3:51] What can neuroscience tell us about the reliability (or unreliability) of eyewitness testimony in police line…
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Eric Kandel: Unconscious Decision Making
[4:30] Nobel-Prize winning neuropsychiatrist Eric Kandel describes new research which hints at the possibility of a …
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Paul Bloom: Can prejudice ever be a good thing?
[16:23] We often think of bias and prejudice as rooted in ignorance. But as psychologist Paul Bloom seeks to show, preju…
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Sam Harris: Mindfulness is Powerful, But Keep Religion Out of It
[6:57] Sam Harris says that stress-reductive benefits of meditation are rather trivial compared to the insights one c…
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Can Money Buy Happiness?
[8:41] Money can’t buy happiness, right? That’s what we’ve always heard. But it turns out money an…
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Ethics: The Problem of Moral Luck
[6:11] Victor Kumar (Michigan) introduces the problem of moral luck and surveys potential solutions. We see how the pr…
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