James Gilligan: Morality is the Problem
[4:00] Clip from the documentary “A Matter of Respect” by Lauren Hatvany [Video and text source: amatter…
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Human Emotion 13.2: Judgment & Decision Making II (Neuroeconomics & Consumption)
[22:24] June Gruber: Human Emotion 00:00 Chapter 1. Introduction to Lecture 01:23 Chapter 2. Emotion and Consumption…
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Dan Ariely: Our buggy moral code
[16:20] Behavioral economist Dan Ariely studies the bugs in our moral code: the hidden reasons we think it’s OK t…
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James Randi debunks Crystal Power and Applied Kinesiology
[5:37] James Randi offers every opportunity for his guest to prove her powers, but as shown time after time, failure y…
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Your Irrational Brain
[5:45] That we are not instinctively built that way must be recognized if we’re going to get beyond the risks of no…
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Why does the placebo effect work?
[6:00] The placebo effect is a long-recognised phenomenon that has played an important part in the history of medicine …
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Sam Harris – Morality and the Christian God
[10:05] What Sam Harris asks for, Sam Harris receives. He put out a challenge to video editors to make a video for his spee…
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Stephen Fry: The Importance of Unbelief
[14:26] If you assume there’s no afterlife, Stephen Fry says, you’ll likely have a fuller, more interest…
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What Is the Ames Illusion?
[2:54] In 1934, ophthalmologist Adelbert Ames, Jr. devised a room that pushes the boundaries of human perception. Vis…
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Why Do We Like What We Like?
[19:17] Acclaimed evolutionary psychologist Paul Bloom reveals how certain universal aspects of the human mind expl…
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