TED-Ed
TED-ED: How do focus groups work? - Hector Lanz
Focus groups have been widely used by organizations and individuals to find out how their products and ideas will be received by an audience. From the usage of household products to a politician's popularity, almost everything can be...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What is a gift economy? - Alex Gendler
What if, this holiday season, instead of saying "thank you" to your aunt for her gift of a knitted sweater, the polite response expected from you was to show up at her house in a week with a better gift? Or to vote for her in the town...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: What is McCarthyism? And how did it happen? - Ellen Schrecker
In the 1950s, as part of a campaign to expose suspected Communists, thousands of individuals were aggressively investigated and questioned before government panels. Named after its most notorious practitioner, the phenomenon known as...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What Aristotle and Joshua Bell can teach us about persuasion - Conor Neill
Imagine you are one of the world's greatest violin players, and you decide to conduct an experiment: play inside a subway station and see if anyone stops to appreciate when you are stripped of a concert hall and name recognition. Joshua...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: What happened to trial by jury? - Suja A. Thomas
In the United States today, juries decide less than 4% of criminal cases and less than 1% of civil cases filed in court. At the same time, jury systems in other countries are growing. So what happened in the US? And could the...
Crash Course
Social Influence: Crash Course Psychology
Why do people sometimes do bad things just because someone else told them to? And what does the term Groupthink mean? In today's episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank talks about the ideas of Social Influence and how it can affect our...
SciShow
Blue Whales and The Smartphone Morality Experiment
Hank shares news about the biggest animal in the history of ever -- blue whales -- and explains the lessons learned in a new study of human morality, using smartphones.
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Where do new words come from? - Marcel Danesi
There are over 170,000 words currently in use in the English language. Yet every year, about a thousand new words are added to the Oxford English Dictionary. Where do they come from, and how do they make it into our everyday lives?...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Pros and cons of public opinion polls - Jason Robert Jaffe
How do public opinion polls work? And, more importantly, are they accurate? Jason Robert Jaffe reveals the complexities and biases of polls and provides tips on how to think about polls as we make everyday decisions.
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Why incompetent people think they're amazing - David Dunning
How good are you with money? What about reading people's emotions? How healthy are you, compared to other people you know? Knowing how our skills stack up against others is useful in many ways. But psychological research suggests that...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What is bipolar disorder? - Helen M. Farrell
The word bipolar means 'two extremes.' For the many millions experiencing bipolar disorder around the world, life is split between two different realities: elation and depression. So what causes this disorder? And can it be treated?...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: In on a secret? That's dramatic irony - Christopher Warner
You're in a movie theater, watching the new horror flick. The audience knows something that the main character does not. The audience sees the character's actions are not in his best interest. What's that feeling -- the one that makes...
Curated Video
The Silent Language of Gestures: Understanding Non-Verbal Communication
Explore the powerful role of non-verbal communication in our daily interactions. This video dives into the fascinating world of body language, examining how our gestures, facial expressions, and physical distances convey complex messages...
Curated Video
Social Psychology
Five leading psychologists present aspects of the life and work of a professional social psychologist, and discuss some current issues in the field of social psychology. Featured are: Barbara Fredrickson (UNC Chapel Hill), Roy Baumeister...
Curated Video
Becoming a Psychologist
Five leading psychologists explain the driving factors which led them to study psychology and become professional psychologists. Featured are: Barbara Fredrickson (UNC Chapel Hill), Philip Zimbardo (Stanford University), Diana Deutsch...
Mister Simplify
Attribution Theory and Social Psychology Explained with Examples - Simplest explanation ever
As we all know, human beings tend to judge people based on their actions and tend to draw conclusions on people's personalities and inner character. Attribution theory delves into this tendency and the process we follow when we connect...
Curated Video
The Need To Belong
Roy Baumeister, University of Queensland, describes how, for the longest time social psychologists only paid lip service to the social world, and that his groundbreaking work The Need To Belong was motivated by an awareness that much of...
Curated Video
Looking For Mechanisms
Psychologist Barbara Fredrickson (UNC Chapel Hill) describes her scientific motivations in exploring positive emotions.
Curated Video
Origins of the Stanford Prison Experiment
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo (Stanford) describes the background of social unrest in 1971 that set the stage for the development of his notorious Stanford Prison Experiment.
Curated Video
The Origins of "The Need To Belong"
Roy Baumeister (Queensland) reflects upon what led him to develop his influential work on “The Need to Belong”, while giving penetrating insights on the life and work of a social psychologist.
Curated Video
Social Psychology, Eventually
Social psychologist Roy Baumeister (Queensland) describes his somewhat circuitous career path.
Neuro Transmissions
The fascinating psychology behind why we're so divided right now.
It's ironic. One of the few things most of us can agree on right now is that we are highly polarized. As the U.S. presidential election reaches its conclusion, tensions are running high between political opponents. Democrats view Donald...
Psychology Unlocked
THE SECRET OF TEXTBOOKS for Psychology Students
Textbooks are your number one tool as a Psychology Student, so don't limit yourself to the one course book. That is the surefire way to be absolutely average. If you want to outperform your class, you'll need to absorb more information...
Professor Dave Explains
The Power of Situation and Framing
Social psychology is an enormous field of studies on people's thoughts, feelings, and beliefs are constructed within the context of interactions with other members of society. Why do we act differently around different people? How do we...