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.
Bonhoeffer‘s Theory of Stupidity
An animated Sprouts video presenting Dietrich Bonhoeffer's argument that stupidity is more dangerous than evil, because reason cannot reach stupid people.
How to Stop a Riot
Wendover Productions explains counterintuitive riot control techniques based on research, showing that effective tactics tend to avoid violence.
Capuchin monkey fairness experiment
A one-minute clip from Frans de Waal's TED talk showing two capuchin monkeys given unequal rewards (cucumber versus grape) for the same task.
What kids really do on Musical.ly
A commentary video by YouTuber PaymoneyWubby reacting to children's content on the Musical.ly app, which became TikTok.
Isn't the purpose of work just making money?
A five-minute clip in which Erich Fromm asks whether the purpose of work is just making money.
THE CORPORATION [11/23] Basic Training
Chapter 11 of the documentary The Corporation, on how marketing targets children, including the Nag Factor study that taught kids to nag their parents more effectively.
Juvenoia
Vsauce looks at 'juvenoia', the exaggerated fear that new media and youth culture are corrupting the young.
How to stop screwing yourself over | Mel Robbins | TEDxSF
Mel Robbins gives a TEDxSF talk on why people sabotage themselves and how to push past hesitation.
'The most profound experience I can imagine': Emotional William Shatner recounts space trip
A CNN segment showing William Shatner emotionally describing his Blue Origin suborbital flight to Jeff Bezos right after landing.
Hazard perception test 2026: official DVSA guide
The UK DVSA's one-minute guide to the hazard perception part of the driving theory test, covering when to click and how to score well.
The Woman Who Could Not Forget - Jill Price
A short TV segment on Jill Price, a woman with highly superior autobiographical memory who recalls nearly every day of her life.
Homer Simpson on Jealousy and Envy
A short Simpsons clip in which Homer distinguishes between jealousy and envy.
How to steal a bike in NYC
A 2006 video showing a man openly cutting the lock and stealing a bike in New York City while passersby, including police, ignore him.
living with lag - an oculus rift experiment
A Swedish fiber provider's short experiment in which volunteers wear Oculus Rift headsets that add lag to their view of real life.
A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work.m4v
A one-minute video of a baby treating a print magazine like a broken iPad, presented as a tribute to Steve Jobs.
Magnus Carlsen's Mind-Blowing Memory! World Chess Champion tested
Grandmaster David Howell tests Magnus Carlsen by showing him chess positions and asking which famous games they come from.
Joshua Bell's 'Stop and Hear the Music' metro experiment | The Washington Post
Washington Post video of the experiment in which violinist Joshua Bell played incognito at a D.C.
Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce | Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell's TED talk on how Howard Moskowitz found that there is no single perfect spaghetti sauce.
This is how hackers hack you using simple social engineering
A short clip demonstrating a phone-based social engineering trick in which a crying baby in the background is used to pressure a customer service rep.
The surprising decline in violence | Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker's TED talk charts the long decline of violence from biblical times to today, arguing that despite Iraq and Darfur we may be living in the most peaceful era of our species.
Star Trek TNG Peak Performance: It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. Full Scene
A short scene from Star Trek TNG season 2, episode 'Peak Performance', in which Picard tells Data that it is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose.
Did People Used To Look Older?
Vsauce explores whether people in past decades really looked older than people of the same age today, or whether photographic and cultural factors make them seem so.