Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) is a condition that affects both children and adults, causing them to display persistent defiance, hostility, and disobedience towards authority figures. In this video, we'll explore what ODD is,...

Is Dysthymia a High Functioning Depression? That's what I am talking about in this video. High functioning depression is a term people will use to describe the degree of depression someone has. That is usually determined by how...

There's some confusion about ADHD and Autism and I've gotten a lot of requests to explain the differences. In this video, I talk about the key differences between the two disorders, and how to tell them apart.

Defense mechanisms are a set of mental strategies we use to ward off anxiety. These range from the primitive, like denial and projection, to more complex ones like sublimation. In this video I share five of the most common primitive...

From early in life, Mary Shelley found inspiration and solace at the foot of the grave. Biographical insight into this relationship with the departed clearly shows that Victor Frankenstein's journey is a terrible lesson in how to respect...

Since more people than usual are probably reading this, I'll mention that before I started making complementary videos with footnotes and behind the scenes info for my Patreon supporters, my video descriptions had all that stuff in them...

Teach your children to count from 1 to 10 in this fun song made just by KLT.

In which John finds himself talking with former First Lady Michelle Obama about marriage and memoir.

This video is a summary and analysis of Act 3 of William Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream. This video primarily addresses the theme of Borders and Cultural Exchange in the play. This is the fourth video in a series about A...

Margaret of York was a lesser-known but politically influential sister of Edward IV, Richard III, and George, Duke of Clarence in 15th century England, during the Wars of the Roses. This video delves into her upbringing, education, and...

What is childhood? What does it do for children? And is childhood disappearing in contemporary societies? This film uses Jane Pilcher's contemporary case study on fashion and the sexualisation of girls to examine these questions.

When Elizabeth Loftus gave evidence for the defence in the trail of George Franklin, it was held by the court that while memories were unreliable and could be altered through questioning, they could not be invented. There were no such...

Discover how Dobson uses the symbol of summer’s end to explore the inevitable passage of time.

The first wave of winter comes, washing away the sun-hats, surfboards and screaming children of summer. The waves ebb and flow, mirroring...

The English-Romanian Adoptees Project was the first study to follow a cohort of children who had suffered periods of institutional deprivation through into adult life. To their surprise, researchers found that problems experienced by...

Why are human relationships complicated? Why do we get attached to people? Do this go back to our childhood and how we were brought up? Attachment theory attempts to answer all these questions and more. We look at the major contributors...

This week we report to you from VidCon! We asked some members of the Art Assignment community to share their experience of participating in an art exchange and making a Lost Childhood Object. Here's what they said. Many thanks to...

More than once, I've considered packing up the family and taking a job in a different city. Each time, my wife and I thought about what it might do to them if we moved. But we were just guessing. There are data! This is Healthcare Triage...

This video is the eighth installment of our Psychology Revision Series to prepare you for your exams with exactly the right information that you need to know.

This Week in Parliament is a series we are currently trialling where we keep you up to date with the latest news from the UK's Parliament. This week we discuss issues including the issue of bullying in Parliament and the allegations...

William Doyle is a 2015-2016 Fulbright Scholar, a 2017 Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellow, a Scholar in Residence and Lecturer on Media and Education at the University of Eastern Finland, and an award-winning, bestselling author and...

This week we visit Lenka Clayton, another Pittsburgh based artist whose work finds meaning in ordinary, everyday objects. For her assignment, she asks you to partner with someone and recreate a lost childhood object, using their memory...

William Doyle is a 2015-2016 Fulbright Scholar, a 2017 Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellow, a Scholar in Residence and Lecturer on Media and Education at the University of Eastern Finland, and an award-winning, bestselling author and...

Infants in medieval art all have one thing in common: They don't look like babies. Instead, they resemble miniature versions of middle-aged men, sometimes complete with receding hairlines and ripped muscles. Depictions of weird,...

Jordan Shapiro, PhD is a globally celebrated public intellectual. He's currently senior fellow for the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, where he coordinates research and advocacy around digital technology and education...