Awe
[2:48] Psychologist Nicholas Humphrey has proposed that our ability to awe was biologically selected for by evolutio…
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How does your brain respond to pain?
[4:57] Ouch! Everyone experiences pain — but why do some people react to the same painful stimulus in different w…
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Arthur Brooks: The secret to happiness
[19:45] How much control do you really have over your happiness, and how effectively are you pursuing it? American Ente…
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The Ecstasy of Curiosity
[3:13] “To entertain such ontologies is to re-contextualize one’s self as a marvelous conduit in a timeless whole…
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Social Media and Ambient Intimacy
[2:23] “Each little update – each individual bit of social information – is insignificant on its own, e…
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How Primal Trauma Resurfaces Throughout Our Lives
[2:36] “The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.” …
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Why Are Teens So Moody?
[3:57] A look inside the teenage brain! [Source: AsapSCIENCE YouTube link]…
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Richard Nisbett: The Psychology of Thinking
[55:44] In a lightning tour of human reasoning, world-renowned psychologist Richard Nisbett shines a new light on the …
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Living As An Adult Baby
[4:30] LOOKING at Jess’s collection of dummies and sippy cups, you’d be forgiven for thinking the pretty 21-year-…
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How to Understand Sexiness
[6:28] What do our turn ons really mean? [Source: The School of Life YouTube link]…
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