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The Surprising Psychology of Human Empathy (TEDx talk transcript)
How do you create meaningful experiences in digital media? Slowly
Do We Have An Authentic Self? What Emimen Teaches Us About The Psychology of Identity
Will the Real Slim Shady please stand up?
The Psychology of Identity: Lessons from The Real Life Jason Bourne
Jason Bourne and Dissociative Fugue
The Philosophy of Travel and The Experience of Otherness
Can we travel without leaving the home?
The Psychology of Meritocracy and The Myth of The Self-Made Man
Can a person ever be “truly” self-made?
Beyond The Truman Show Delusion: Solipsism and The Neuroscience of Mentalization
How can our brains understand the brains of others?
What The Truman Show Delusion Reveals About Human Nature
Is it all a show, just for us? Or a trick of our own social cognition?
How The Narrative Bias and Storytelling Drives our Love of Sports
Our love of sports is actually a love of storytelling
What Foxes Reveal About Human Nature
Dogs are man’s best friend, but friendly foxes might be a close second
The Psychology of Questions, an Interview with Marc Champagne
How can we inject a bit of ancient wisdom into our modern existence?
How Photography Impacts The Psychology of Attention and Visual Processing
Adam Brockett explains the neuroscience of phtography
The Neuroscience Behind Vision, Photography, and Cameras
What’s the neuroscience of vision? And how do cameras simulate this?
How Smartphones Produce Counterfactual Thinking: A Psychological Perspective
What’s behind that screen? A world of possibilities. And that’s the problem
The Psychology of Metacognition and Mantras
Diana Hill, PhD on the psychology of our inner chatter
Understanding Clinical Psychology and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Diana Hill, PhD on clinical psychology and acceptance therapy
The Psychology of Dark Humor in The Era of COVID-19
Is dark humor too much? Or an important coping mechanism?
How Social Cognition Creates Consciousness and Kills Philosophical Zombies
What can zombies teach us about the neuroscience of consciousness?