We Are Built To Be Kind
[4:36] Human nature is often portrayed as selfish and power hungry, but research by Dacher Keltner finds that we are har…
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Antonio Damasio: How Our Brains Build Our Autobiographies
[5:41] While our own personal histories happen one event at a time, our brains make sense of our lives by stringing these …
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Joseph LeDoux: What Makes Brains Conscious?
[3:40] Everything we know, think and feel—everything!—comes from our brains. But consciousness, our private se…
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Joel Pearson: Hacking Psychology to Measure the Mind
[13:49] Online dating, how many of us lie about our profiles to change the psychology of someone’s perception about u…
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What Makes a Good Leader?
[3:04] “Reality, it seems, is multiple, and tightly coupled to perception.” – Diana Slattery [Video sourc…
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Why Are We So Unhappy?
[2:23] “It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.̶…
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No One is ‘Normal’
[1:53] Everyone assumes that they are the only one to be freakish. In fact, of course, it’s very normal to be abnormal.…
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How to Encourage The Evolution of Your Brain
[7:04] Renowned medical researcher Dr. Rudolph Tanzi takes you on a tour of the brain, and explains why positive thinki…
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How Commercials Get Us To Buy Crap We Don’t Need
[3:27] Advertisers are using several psychological tactics to get us to buy a lot more. [Video source: AJ+ YouTube li…
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Susan Greenfield: Human Mind and Society
[11:31] Society is composed of human minds working collectively. By appreciating consciousness can we understand so…
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