PickVidsBest Psychology & human behavior Videos
The 166 Psychology & human behavior videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 7 introductory, 7 intermediate, 152 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include TED, Veritasium, TEDx Talks.
Terence Mckenna - Culture is your operating system
A short edited excerpt of Terence McKenna arguing that culture acts as an operating system for the mind, set to imagery and music.
Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents' | James Flynn
Moral philosopher James Flynn explains the Flynn effect, the steady rise of IQ scores across the 20th century.
A visual guide to Bayesian thinking
Julia Galef uses pictures to explain Bayes' rule, then tells three personal stories showing how she applies it to improve her thinking.
Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | Talks at Google
Daniel Kahneman's Talks at Google lecture on his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, covering System 1 and System 2 thinking and the psychology of judgment and decision making.
Robert Sapolsky: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
A 73-minute Stanford talk by Robert Sapolsky drawn from his book Behave.
So... the minute hand shows progression — apparently we think of time in wildly different ways
A Technology Connections video essay on how analog and digital clocks shape different mental models of time, with the minute hand acting as a progress indicator.
Simon Sinek: Why Leaders Eat Last
Simon Sinek's 99U talk on why leaders earn trust by putting their team's safety ahead of their own, drawing on biology and anthropology.
How to recover from depression
Clinical psychologist Dr Michael Yapko draws on forty years of practice and research to explain skills that help people recover from, and even prevent, depression.
DICKS: Do you need to be one to be a successful leader?
Filmmaker Max Joseph's 35-minute video essay asks whether you have to be a jerk to be a successful leader.
2017 Personality 01: Introduction
The opening lecture of Jordan Peterson's 2017 University of Toronto personality course.
Loneliness
Kurzgesagt explains why humans feel loneliness, its evolutionary role, and how modern life can turn it into a harmful downward spiral.
The puzzle of motivation | Dan Pink | TED
Dan Pink's TED talk argues that traditional carrot-and-stick rewards often fail for creative work, drawing on the candle problem and social science research.
RSA ANIMATE: Smile or Die
An RSA Animate drawing of Barbara Ehrenreich's talk on the darker side of positive thinking.
selective attention test
The original invisible gorilla awareness test by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, in which viewers count basketball passes and often miss a gorilla crossing the scene.
Brené Brown on Empathy
A short animated RSA piece with Dr Brene Brown's voiceover on the difference between empathy and sympathy.
The Trolley Problem in Real Life
Vsauce's Michael Stevens stages a realistic version of the trolley problem with unsuspecting subjects who believe they must decide a life-or-death outcome.
Meaningful Play: Getting Gamification Right
A Google Tech Talk by Sebastian Deterding on gamification.
Forget big change, start with a tiny habit: BJ Fogg at TEDxFremont
BJ Fogg of Stanford's Persuasive Tech Lab argues that lasting change comes from tiny habits, such as flossing one tooth or doing one pushup, anchored to things you already do.
Making Badass Developers - Kathy Sierra (Serious Pony) keynote
Kathy Sierra's Fluent 2015 keynote on the one metaskill for developers: the ability to come up to speed quickly and stay there.
How to Get Good at Small Talk, and Even Enjoy It
A Harvard Business Review video with tactics for getting better at small talk and enjoying it, such as setting goals, allowing pauses, and starting and ending conversations.
The psychology of evil | Philip Zimbardo
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo explains how ordinary people can be pushed into doing evil by situations and systems.
How to Achieve Your Most Ambitious Goals | Stephen Duneier | TEDxTucson
Stephen Duneier describes a decision-making approach that took him from struggling with simple tasks to achieving ambitious goals.
Causal understanding of water displacement by a crow
A silent PLOS ONE video of New Caledonian crows solving Aesop's Fable puzzles by dropping objects to raise water and reach food.
Why Life Seems to Speed Up as We Age
Veritasium explores why time seems to speed up as we age, covering chronoception and several competing explanations beyond the common proportional-theory argument.