Psychology Unlocked
How to explain the results of Milgram's Obedience Experiment
This video outlines five factors which may have influenced the results of Milgram's landmark 1961 experiment.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Scott Plous - What is Action Teaching
Andrés Richner is the Director of Technology at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, where he spearheads the development of an online learning platform to support RULER, the Center’s approach to social emotional learning and...
Psychology Unlocked
Should Teenagers Work? - Steinberg et al. (1982)
This video tackles the question of whether teenagers should take paid work alongside their education. Based on Steinberg et al.'s (1982) findings, this video challenges the notion that teenagers should use their free-time for financial...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Leslie Zebrowitz - Teachers Make a Difference - Charles A. Kiesler
Leslie Zebrowitz (PhD, Yale University) is the Manuel Yellen Professor of Social Relations and Professor of Psychology at Brandeis University. Trained as a social psychologist, she has recently received advanced training in social...
Psychology Unlocked
How to write an abstract for a scientific paper (with an example)
If you need to know how to write an abstract, this video goes through the process step-by-step, including a great example from a research report by Zhao and Rogalin (2017) published in Social Psychology Quarterly. If you're approaching...
Psychology Unlocked
Groups and Conformity - Social Influence - Psychology A-Level Revision Tool
This video is the first of a new Psychology A Level Revision series to prepare you for your exams with exactly the right information that you need to know.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Mina Cikara - Teachers Make a Difference - Jannay Morrow
Mina Cikara is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and director of the Intergroup Neuroscience Lab. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology and Social Policy from Princeton University in 2010 and completed a NIH Ruth L....
Psychology Unlocked
On Being Sane in Insane Places - David Rosenhan's Hospital Experiment
David Rosenhan's landmark experiment tests the boundaries of mental illness, and the diagnosis of psychiatric conditions. A decade after One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest was published, Rosenhan brought distopian fiction to life.
Intelligence Squared
Angrynomics: Why The World is So Angry
Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise, when economists and politicians tell us we have never had it so good? While statistics tell us that the v...
Psychology Unlocked
Stanley Milgram's Obedience Experiment (1961)
Learn about Stanley Milgram's landmark 1961 experiment on obedience to authority. Also known as the electric shock experiment.
Professor Dave Explains
Social Psychology Part 3: Looking at Each Other
So far in the realm of social psychology we've examined the power of situation and framing, as well as the manner in which we view ourselves. Now let's take a look at how we view other people. How is society built upon the ways that we...
Psychology Unlocked
Do you need two parents? Bruno Bettelheim (1964) and Communal Parenting
This video explores a classic observational study of non-traditional parenting. Bettelheim (1964) spent 7 weeks on a Kibbutz studying communal parenting.
Psychology Unlocked
Paltering: The Art of Lying Truthfully - Rogers et al. (2016)
Everybody lies. However there are different types of lying. This video explores research on "paltering" - lying by telling the truth. This intriguing form of lying can be perceived as the most unethical, and can lead to significant...
Psychology Unlocked
How Babies Form Attachments - Schaffer & Emerson
Human babies take a longer time to form attachments than other animals. This video introduces you to Schaffer and Emerson's (1964) four stages of attachment - based on their classic observational study of 60 children in Glasgow, Scotland.
Psychology Unlocked
The Strange Situation - Mary Ainsworth (1969)
Possibly the most famous experimental paradigm for exploring attachment in infants - Mary Ainsworth's (1969) Strange Situation places an infant in eight scenarios to observe their attachment behaviours.
Professor Dave Explains
The Privileged Self
In the previous tutorial we introduced social psychology by examining the power of situation and framing. Now let's take a look at how we view ourselves. Is it true that we see ourselves as special? What sorts of biases does this produce...
Psychology Unlocked
Pavlov's Dogs and How People Learn - Classical Conditioning
This video introduces you to the concept of Classical Conditioning (Pavlovian Conditioning), a key learning theory discovered accidentally by Ivan Pavlov. We also discuss the ethically dubious experiment conducted by Watson and Raynor...
Psychology Unlocked
The Stanford Prison Experiment - Zimbardo (1972)
This video outlines Zimbardo's most famous experiment - the Stanford Prison Experiment - which has to be called off within a week because it proved to be too dangerous to continue.
TED-Ed
Rethinking Thinking
As humans, we are constantly making inferences and developing beliefs about the world around us. Using the image of a ladder embedded in our subconscious, take a detailed look into how, rung by rung, we process our interactions with...
TED-Ed
An Exercise in Time Perception
Some experiences can feel very brief or excruciatingly interminable. How is it that we come to miscalculate time so easily? Our perception of time is heavily influenced by the number of memories and data we record in our brains. Learn...
Crash Course
Crash Course Psychology #37: Social Thinking
Crash Course video discusses bad versus good behavior and the notion of social thinking. [10:47]
Crash Course
Crash Course Psychology #38: Social Influence
Crash Course video in which Hank Green discusses social influence and how it affects our decisions and behavior. [10:07]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Social Influences
This video looks at how imitation, roles, reference groups, and culture are all parts of social influence. [11:27]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Can We Learn From the Milgram Experiment
A video over viewing a famous psychology study that showed that people would go against their own values to comply with an authority figure. [4:21]