Not all scientific studies are created equal
[4:26] Every day, we are bombarded by attention grabbing headlines that promise miracle cures to all of our ailments &#…
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How Texting Affects Your Brain
[4:34] Texting changes our brainwaves unlike any other activity. What exactly does texting do to our brains and what ar…
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Dan Ariely: The Truth About Dishonesty
[28:46] Dan Ariely, bestselling author and professor of psychology and behavioural economics at Duke University vis…
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BJ Casey: The Mind of the Adolescent
[5:59] Alan Alda visits with Dr. BJ Casey, Professor of Developmental Psychobiology at Weill Medical College of Corne…
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Ready for this? Two Minds in One Brain
[6:53] Neuroscientist Giulio Tononi discusses the the bizarre phenomenon of “split-brain” patients w…
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CRITICAL THINKING – Cognitive Biases: Mental Accounting
[3:36] The psychologist Laurie Santos (Yale University) explains the phenomenon of mental accounting: why we don…
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Wegstock lectures 15: Bill Crano – Drug use / Persuasiveness
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Wegstock lectures 16: Robin Vallacher – Social behavior research
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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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Dan Ariely: Are we in control of our decisions?
[17:26] THE TWO WAYS…. WAY #1: Due to the brain being way too complex with its 86 billion or so neurons and then tril…
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