Why Humans Are Natural Liars
[4:12] Humans lie as often as 2 or 3 times in a ten minute conversation. Why did we evolve to lie and what might it tell us abo…
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Tenacious DNA
[12:20] History of our evolution. WE MADE IT! 🙂 [Source: UppruniTegundanna YouTube link]…
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Rose Eveleth: The science of spiciness
[3:54] When you take a bite of a hot pepper, your body reacts as if your mouth is on fire — because that’s esse…
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The Autonomic Nervous System
[3:03] Dr. Rick Hecht points out the various functions of the autonomic nervous system and explains the division betwe…
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CRITICAL THINKING – Cognitive Biases: Alief
[3:59] In this video, the psychologist Laurie Santos (Yale University) explains the philosopher Tamar Gendler (Yale …
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Why Do We Cry?
[2:51] Have you ever wondered why water comes out of your eyes when you get sad? [Source: Life Noggin YouTube link]…
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Daniel Kahneman: How Your Mind Works
[2:37] In the international bestseller Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winn…
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The Amygdala and Unconscious Memories
[3:24] The amygdala is responsible for implicit memories, but these are different from what Freud called the unconsci…
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Rajita Sinha: The Stressed Brain
[1:20:25] A Stockholm Psychiatry Lecture given by Professor Rajita Sinha, Yale University, at Karolinska Institute…
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Kerry Ressler: The neuroscience of emotion
[19:17] Fear is a powerful, yet primitive, emotion that is also the root of much violence, war and suffering. Understan…
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