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.
First Follower: Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy
Derek Sivers annotates a short clip of a lone dancer at a festival, showing how a first follower turns a ridiculous act into a movement.
Jordan Peterson - Controversial Facts about IQ
A clip of psychologist Jordan Peterson lecturing on intelligence and IQ, covering how it is defined and its correlation with academic and work success.
The Most Common Cognitive Bias
A Veritasium video that runs the 2-4-8 rule-guessing puzzle on people to show how they test only examples that confirm their hypothesis.
Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt presents his moral foundations research in a TED talk.
Invisibility Training for Motorcyclists
FortNine's tongue-in-cheek guide to why drivers fail to see motorcyclists and how riders can make themselves more visible.
"Understanding Burnout," Prof. Christina Maslach (U.C. Berkeley)
A Berkeley lecture by psychologist Christina Maslach, a leading burnout researcher, on what burnout is and what causes it.
The surprising science of happiness | Dan Gilbert
Psychologist Dan Gilbert argues in this TED talk that our psychological immune system lets us become happy even when things do not go as planned.
2017 Personality 18: Biology & Traits: Openness/Intelligence/Creativity I
A Jordan Peterson university lecture on the Big Five trait openness to experience, covering creativity and intelligence.
I took an IQ test to explain what's wrong with them
Veritasium takes an IQ test and examines what IQ measures, its history including military use and eugenics, its controversies, and how it correlates with life outcomes.
The Uncanny Valley Is Wrong
This Place argues that the uncanny valley is a flawed concept, since 'human likeness' is too broad and the supporting evidence is cherry-picked.
Why Gifted Kids Are Actually Special Needs
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Jordan Peterson - Pareto Distributions
A short clip of Jordan Peterson explaining Pareto distributions, using Soviet farm collectivization and the resulting famine as context.
Joscha: Computational Meta-Psychology
Joscha Bach's 32C3 talk applies computational theories of mind to questions of meaning, emotion, and love, asking how computation can explain irrational-seeming human experience.
Hjernevask - Brainwashing (Eng Sub) Part 1 - The Gender Equality Paradox
First episode of the Norwegian documentary series Hjernevask, in which Harald Eia interviews researchers on the nature versus nurture debate.
Why is this number everywhere?
Veritasium explores why the number 37 turns up so often, drawing on Tom Magliery's collection of 37 sightings and a poll of about 200,000 people asked to pick a random number.
What Would You Do? Bike Theft (White Guy, Black Guy, Pretty Girl)
A hidden-camera social experiment in a park where three people try to steal a bike in the open: a white teenager, a black teenager and a young woman.
Two Monkeys Were Paid Unequally: Excerpt from Frans de Waal's TED Talk
A short excerpt from Frans de Waal's TED talk showing a capuchin monkey fairness experiment in which two monkeys are paid unequally, one with cucumber and one with grapes.
Joe Rogan Experience #1419 - Daryl Davis
Joe Rogan interviews Daryl Davis, a Black blues musician who has befriended Ku Klux Klan members and helped many leave the group.
Strange answers to the psychopath test | Jon Ronson | TED
Jon Ronson, author of The Psychopath Test, gives a TED talk on the blurry line between sane and crazy and on psychopathy as a spectrum, with stories of how the label gets applied.
Don't Be a Sucker - 1947
A 1947 US military film that deconstructs how the Nazi regime used divisive propaganda and prejudice to split and control a population.
Genetics and Intelligence
Steve Hsu's 2011 Google Tech Talk reviews psychometric measurement of intelligence and the heritability of adult IQ, then discusses genome-wide association studies seeking the genes behind cognitive ability.
Are we in control of our decisions? | Dan Ariely
In a TED talk, behavioral economist Dan Ariely uses visual illusions and his research to show that people are less rational in their decisions than they think.
RSA ANIMATE: The Secret Powers of Time
An RSA Animate illustrating a lecture by psychologist Philip Zimbardo on how people's perspectives on time (past, present, future) shape work, health and well-being.
Why hierarchy creates a destructive force within the human psyche (by dr. Robert Sapolsky)
A short clip of Robert Sapolsky on how social hierarchy generates chronic stress, drawing on baboon research.