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.
Keep your goals to yourself | Derek Sivers
A four-minute TED talk in which Derek Sivers argues that announcing your goals can make you less likely to achieve them.
Why I, as a black man, attend KKK rallies. | Daryl Davis | TEDxNaperville
Black musician Daryl Davis tells how a chance encounter led him to befriend Ku Klux Klan members and seek the source of racial hate.
Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator | Tim Urban | TED
Tim Urban's TED talk on why people procrastinate, covering YouTube binges and Wikipedia rabbit holes.
Simon Sinek on Millennials in the Workplace
An excerpt of Simon Sinek on Inside Quest discussing millennials in the workplace.
The Pervert's Guide to Computer Programming Languages - SXSW
A SXSW talk by W Watson that uses Lacanian psychoanalysis, with nods to Zizek, to critique popular programming languages.
Feynman: How to think 1 of 2 FUN TO IMAGINE 11
An excerpt from the 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine in which Richard Feynman describes how he and a mathematician friend counted in their heads in different ways, one verbally and one visually.
John Cleese vs Extremism
A two-minute John Cleese monologue showing the pathology of extremism, explaining why it feels good and how it drives out moderates.
The Bell Curve
Shaun's roughly 2.7-hour video essay on The Bell Curve.
How To Be Alone
An animated short film of Tanya Davis's spoken-word poem 'How To Be Alone', illustrated by Andrea Dorfman.
[AUDIO FIXED] The Truth Cannot be Sexist - Steven Pinker on the biology of sex differences
An excerpt of the 2005 Harvard debate in which Steven Pinker gives his prepared case on biological sex differences and the under-representation of women in science.
How one tweet can ruin your life | Jon Ronson
Jon Ronson's TED talk on public shaming on Twitter, centered on Justine Sacco and others whose lives were upended by online mobs.
It's Not About The Nail
A two-minute comedy sketch in which a woman describes her problems while a visible nail sticks out of her head, and her partner keeps trying to fix it instead of listening.
RSA ANIMATE: Language as a Window into Human Nature
An RSA Animate in which Steven Pinker explains how the mind builds infinite meanings from finite language, and why people often speak indirectly.
Moral behavior in animals | Frans de Waal
Frans de Waal's TED talk shows videos of behavioral experiments on primates and other mammals that reveal empathy, cooperation, fairness and reciprocity.
Mike Mullane - Normalisation of deviance - IAFF - Part 1
Astronaut Mike Mullane explains normalisation of deviance, where teams gradually come to accept violations of their own safety standards.
Sid Meier's Psychology of Game Design
Civilization creator Sid Meier's GDC 2010 talk on applying psychology to game design.
Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong | Johann Hari | TED
Johann Hari's TED talk arguing that addiction is driven largely by disconnection and environment rather than chemical hooks alone.
The paradox of choice | Barry Schwartz | TED
Psychologist Barry Schwartz argues in this TED talk that abundant choice makes people more paralyzed and dissatisfied rather than freer and happier.
The Power of belief -- mindset and success | Eduardo Briceno | TEDxManhattanBeach
Eduardo Briceno gives a TEDx talk on mindset, contrasting fixed and growth views of ability.
War - Part Two: Anybody's Son Will Do (1 of 6)
An episode of Gwynne Dyer's 1983 documentary series War, about how military basic training turns recruits into soldiers.
Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread | Sandy Pentland | Talks at Google
Sandy Pentland of MIT presents his book on social physics, which uses big-data studies of how people interact to explain how ideas spread.
Lecture: Biblical Series I: Introduction to the Idea of God
Jordan Peterson's first lecture in his Biblical Series examines the idea of God as sovereignty and power abstracted from any individual ruler, and as the pattern inherent in human dominance hierarchies.
How We’re Fooled By Statistics
A short Veritasium video explaining regression to the mean and how ignoring it leads to wrong conclusions about punishment versus reward, medical treatments and sports streaks.
Derren Brown - The System (Full)
Derren Brown's TV special in which he convinces a person he has a system for predicting horse race winners, demonstrating how survivorship bias and selective outcomes can fake predictive powers.