Can Language Affect How You Spend Your Money?
[5:53] Yale University economist Keith Chen’s study on “The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior.&#…
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Dan Ariely: Are we in control of our decisions?
[17:26] THE TWO WAYS…. WAY #1: Due to the brain being way too complex with its 86 billion or so neurons and then tril…
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Not Liking One’s Looks
[3:55] Many of us inhabit bodies and faces that don’t look as we feel they should. It’s one of the most painful aspect…
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V.S. Ramachandran: Synaesthesia in Mystical Traditions
[1:00:00] Experiences in which the senses are intermingled in usual ways are a common motif in the descriptions that my…
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Daniel Kahneman: Moving to California Won’t Make You Happy
[2:18] In some crucial areas of human cognition, we don’t know and we can’t fully trust ourselves. On the b…
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Oliver Sacks: 5 Common Types of Hallucinations
[7:01] Acclaimed neurologist Oliver Sacks spoke to Motherboard in 2012, in this previously unreleased animated exce…
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Dan Gilbert: Why we make bad decisions
[34:09] Dan Gilbert presents research and data from his exploration of happiness — sharing some surprising tes…
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Richard Dawkins interviews Illusionist Derren Brown
[53:14] In his series Enemies of Reason Richard Dawkins interviewed in an hour long special Derren Brown to get some ins…
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Why does the placebo effect work?
[6:00] The placebo effect is a long-recognised phenomenon that has played an important part in the history of medicine …
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Dan Gilbert: The psychology of your future self
[6:50] “Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished.” Dan Gilbert …
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