Elizabeth Dunn: Happiness and Money
[14:54] Elizabeth Dunn conducts experimental research on self-knowledge and happiness with a focus on how people can …
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Peter Kuijper: Get healthier by tricking your amygdala
[10;41] Peter Kuijper inspires you to get a healthier life by understanding how your amygdala works. About the speaker…
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Alain de Botton: On Love
[1:12:48] Twenty-first century depictions of love and marriage are shaped by a set of Romantic myths and misconceptio…
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Steven Pinker Outlines Unique Human Traits
[3:53] Humans have a number of unusual traits that set us apart from other animals as Steven Pinker explains in this clip …
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Peter Singer: The Ethics of What We Eat
[1:13:02] Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Publ…
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V.S. Ramachandran & B. Alan Wallace: The brain, the mind and our potential
[41:43] What makes us human? How does the mind influence the brain? How can we explain the placebo effect? How does infor…
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Bessel van der Kolk: Learn the Signs and Symptoms of PTSD
[7:15] One of the world’s foremost psychiatrists specializing in PTSD, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk visits Big Think …
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Empathy, Is It All It’s Cracked Up to Be?
[56:43] Empathy is typically seen as wonderful, central to cooperation, caring, and morality. We want to have empathi…
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Why We Go Cold On Our Partners
[5:20] Going cold on our partners is often a sign not that we have stopped caring, but that we are – somewhere deep d…
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Happiness Genes Located for First Time
[3:30] A huge study involving 190 researchers in 140 research centers across 17 countries have located some specific g…
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