Battling Your Biased Brain
Explore cognitive biases and their impact on decision-making, learning strategies to overcome mental pitfalls and enhance critical thinking skills.
The Art of Addictive Software - The Digital Narcotic
Explore the ethics of addictive software design, its impact on users, and the responsibility of developers in creating digital products that can influence human behavior.
Virtual Empathy
Explore the future of empathy in AI and virtual worlds, discussing how emotional experiences translate across digital platforms and the potential impact on human connections.
Making Marketing Great Again - Inside the Trump 2016 Advertising Campaign
Insider insights on Trump's 2016 digital campaign strategy, exploring targeted advertising, data-driven decision-making, and emotional messaging techniques that led to electoral success.
White Mars - Living Far Away From Any Form of Life
Explore life and scientific research at Concordia Station in Antarctica, an isolated environment mimicking extraterrestrial conditions, and its implications for space exploration and human adaptation.
Designs for the Human Mind
Explore the psychology behind intuitive UI design and how to create digital experiences that resonate with human cognition and behavior.
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Explore Steven Pinker's perspective on society's progression towards benevolence in this thought-provoking talk at the Royal Institution, examining historical trends and human nature.
What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
Pulitzer Prize-winner Jared Diamond explores insights from tribal societies, offering unique perspectives on human nature and our rapidly receding past in this thought-provoking lecture.
The Malleable Memory
Explore the power of memory in shaping our stories and identities, and how social cues influence narrative formation, with insights from a young researcher's perspective.
Punishment Driven Development
Explore the impact of blame and punishment in software development, understanding its origins, consequences, and effective alternatives for better team dynamics and results.
The Psychology of Social Engineering
Explore psychological tactics in social engineering, from advertising tricks to phishing techniques. Learn to recognize and defend against manipulation in various contexts.
The Psychology of Social Engineering
Explore psychological tactics in social engineering, from scams to mind hacks. Learn underhanded techniques for persuasion and manipulation in various contexts.
The Surprising Science of Alpha Males
Primatologist Frans de Waal challenges common misconceptions about alpha males, revealing unexpected traits like generosity and empathy, while drawing parallels to human leadership and power dynamics.
Let the Environment Guide Our Development
Explore how human growth impacts Earth's resources and learn about nine "planetary boundaries" that can guide sustainable development and protect overlapping ecosystems.
Security in the Context of Human Behaviors and Values by Elissa Redmiles
Explore security through human behavior, examining its intersection with machine learning and economics. Gain insights into valuable skills for understanding and improving digital safety.
Social Cybersecurity - Reshaping Security Through Human Social Behavior
Exploring how social influences impact cybersecurity behaviors and designing systems that leverage social dynamics to encourage better security practices among users.
Strange Answers to the Psychopath Test
Explore the blurred line between sanity and insanity with author Jon Ronson's hair-raising delivery, live-mixed sound, and animated presentation on psychopathy and mental health diagnoses.
The Optimism Bias
Explore the fascinating concept of optimism bias and its impact on human behavior, decision-making, and well-being through groundbreaking research and insights.
The Biology of Our Best and Worst Selves
Explore the biological roots of human behavior with neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky as he examines the factors influencing our compassionate and violent tendencies across various timescales.
4 Lessons from Robots About Being Human
Explore how robots challenge our understanding of humanity, revealing insights about empathy, collaboration, and our own limitations in this thought-provoking TEDx talk.
Social Psychology - The Power of Situation and Framing
Explore how social interactions shape thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. Learn about confirmation bias, social facilitation, and the impact of context on behavior in this introduction to social psychology.