Bruce Hood: The domesticated brain: How the social environment turned us into children
[45:53] The human brain increased in size over the course of our evolution in response to increasing social complexity…
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Bruce Hood: Mine! The Power of Ownership
[6:45] Ownership is a peculiar human preoccupation which defines who we are. Ownership controls our lives and yet, ver…
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Eric Schwitzgebel: How Belief Systems Affect Believers
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The Uncomfortable Effort of Thinking
[12:10] How the brain works, how we learn, and why we sometimes make stupid mistakes. [Video and text source: Veritasiu…
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Plato’s best (and worst) ideas
[4:48] Few individuals have influenced the world and many of today’s thinkers like Plato. He created the first Weste…
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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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Jonathan Haidt: What Capitalism Does to Us…And for Us
[1:40:37] Dr. Jonathan Haidt presentation for the John H. Schnatter Center for Free Enterprise at the University of Lo…
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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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