Paul Bloom on the Psychology of Prejudice
[3:12] Paul Bloom, author and Yale University psychologist, explores the psychological roots of prejudice. Deep dow…
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Daniel Goldstein: The battle between your present and future self
[16:00] Every day, we make decisions that have good or bad consequences for our future selves. (Can I skip flossing just …
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Do You Know God?
[6:31] Billions of people claim to “know” God. How could they all be wrong? Simple. Just listen to them. If ten peopl…
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How Racist Are You? – Jane Elliott’s Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise
[47:00] These 30 people have never met. By the days end, they may wish they never had. For one long day they’ll be at …
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Colour Mixing: The Mystery of Magenta
[5:13] Why doesn’t magenta appear in the rainbow? The answer lies not in physics but in biology. Science present…
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Dan Siegel: How to Successfully Build an “Integrated” Child
[13:40] Dan Siegel, a renowned psychotherapist explains the neurobiological workings of a child’s brain and h…
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Susan Blackmore: Fighting the Fakers (and Failing)
[30:44] Susan Blackmore is a psychologist and writer researching consciousness, memes, and anomalous experiences, …
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The Ideas of Socrates
[10:55] In this lecture we examine the ideas of Socrates. We look at his exhortation to ‘care for your soul’…
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Paradox of self: Ego – Puppeteer fights with puppet
[3:59] WARNING: GRAPHIC LANGUAGE. Elevator scene from the film Revolver (2005) Jake and his ego have a fight. One of t…
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Steven Pinker and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: The long reach of reason
[15:23] Here’s a TED first: an animated Socratic dialog! In a time when irrationality seems to rule both politic…
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