Eric Schwitzgebel: How Belief Systems Affect Believers
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Hector Avalos: Religion & Violence
[54:49] A New Theory for an Old Problem Professor of religious studies at Iowa State University, Dr. Hector Avalos spea…
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25 Things Psychology Tells You About Yourself
[8:32] There are few things in existence more fascinating than the human mind. In fact, apart from the depths of space, i…
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Alex Haslam: The Psychology of Tyranny: Did Milgram Get It Wrong?
[17:49] Professor Alex Haslam’s work reviews the famous Milgram’s experiment to show how tyranny and obedience a…
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Jonathan Haidt: Why We’re Convinced We’re Right (and everyone else is wrong!)
[2:13] Are you trapped in an online echo chamber? Society is becoming ever more divided as we seek out information that r…
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Would winning the lottery make you happier?
[4:35] Imagine winning a multi-million dollar lottery tomorrow. If you’re like many of us, you’d be ecstatic, una…
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Michael Patrick Lynch: How to see past your own perspective and find truth
[14:26] The more we read and watch online, the harder it becomes to tell the difference between what’s real and wh…
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Yuval Noah Harari: Nationalism vs. globalism: the new political divide
[1:00:08] How do we make sense of today’s political divisions? In a wide-ranging conversation full of insight, …
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Barbara Oakley: Is It Really Possible to Change Someone’s Beliefs?
[4:49] It’s hard to know how you can change a person’s mind or opinion. And the reality is you can’t. I mean a change …
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The Social Synapse
[1:43:48] We humans work together on enormous scales, build complex tools as large as cities, and create social networ…
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