For this week’s update I decided to post some links to interesting websites relating to psychology. I couldn’t immediately think of anything in particular, and I was also a little lazy to be honest. So I decided to head over to the TED website to see what talks they had on psychology.
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It is an annual conference which brings together some of our planet’s greatest thinkers and doers to present short talks, which are then made freely available to the public.
It’s one of those websites that you find hard to close once you’ve started downloading. I didn’t expect to find so much on psychology, and I’m very sorry if I’m responsible for you depleting all of your bandwidth!
The TED website can be found at www.TED.com
The following 18 minute talks can be found under TED’s psychology tag:…
Al Seckel says our brains are mis-wired
Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice
Dan Ariely on our buggy moral code
Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy?
Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectations
Helen Fisher studies the brain in love
Helen Fisher tells us why we love + cheat
Ian Dunbar on dog-friendly dog training
Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives
Martin Seligman on positive psychology
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on flow
Philip Zimbardo shows how people become monsters … or heroes
Richard Dawkins on our “queer” universe
Richard St. John’s 8 secrets of success
Steven Pinker chalks it up to the blank slate
Steven Pinker on language and thought
Stuart Brown says play is more than fun
Tony Robbins asks why we do what we do
