Why would four young men watch their friend die, when they could have intervened to save him? Why would a woman obey phone commands from a stranger to strip-search an innocent employee? What makes ordinary... continue reading

posted by mauz15 1 decade 5 years 9 months 4 weeks ago • 5,122 views

Looks at the natural history of the human parent and child. Why do homosapiens devote more time to raising their young than any other animal? What makes parents sacrifice so much for their children, and... continue reading

posted by mauz15 1 decade 5 years 10 months ago • 2,155 views

Analyzes the biological nature of love, with its attendant patterns of behavior and signals of health and fertility that have evolved to ensure pair-bonding and genetic survival. The pre- and post-pubescent... continue reading

posted by mauz15 1 decade 5 years 10 months ago • 6,817 views

In evolutionary terms, the human animal has gone from mud hut to skyscraper in the mere twinkling of an eye. The cameras of the Natural History Unit capture the subtleties of human hierarchy in an English... continue reading

posted by mauz15 1 decade 5 years 10 months 1 week ago • 3,472 views • 49:13

A look at how man communicated before the evolution of language. Some gestures and expressions are so ingrained that we have not been able to erase them from our vocabulary. Episode 2: The Hunting Ape ... continue reading

posted by mauz15 1 decade 5 years 10 months 1 week ago • 3,643 views

This program demonstrates how visual information is gathered and processed, and how our culture, previous experiences, and interests influence our perceptions. With Dr. David Hubel of Harvard University... continue reading

posted by mauz15 1 decade 6 years 1 week ago • 8,673 views

'The Trap - What Happened To Our Dream Of Freedom?' is a new documentary by the BAFTA-winning producer Adam Curtis. It looks at how models of human behaviour shaped by Cold War logic have come to control... continue reading

posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 7 years 8 months ago • 4,370 views • 59:36

A video looking at the psychology of combat and reactions of people to killing in the combat zone.

posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 7 years 5 months ago • 8,767 views

The Stanford prison experiment is classic Psych 101 material. See how Dr. Zimbardo's results apply to the real world.

posted by kronosposeidon 1 decade 6 years 11 months ago • 1,690 views

Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, asks why we aren’t more compassionate more of the time. Sharing the results of psychological experiments (and the story of the Santa Cruz Strangler),... continue reading

posted by eric3579 1 decade 6 years 11 months ago • 2,409 views • 13:14

Howard Bloom is an author, a publicist, and the founder of two new fields, mass behavior and paleopsychology. He is the founder of several scientific endeavors involving evolutionary psychology, including... continue reading

posted by Kulpims T'dna (kulpims) 1 decade 6 years 5 months 1 week ago • 2,822 views

from description: Warning: This Program Contains Graphic Imagery! Social psychologist Philip Zimbardo discusses From Genocide to Abu Ghraib: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. To help us... continue reading

posted by curiousity 1 decade 6 years 8 months 1 week ago • 4,480 views

Some policemen interrogate a boy whos sister has been found dead. They try to make him confess to the murder using bully tactics and psychologically messing with him over a period of ten hours. Disturbing... continue reading

posted by alien_concept 1 decade 6 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 6,216 views • 5:02

"This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." - Adam Curtis Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, changed... continue reading

posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 7 years 8 months ago • 5,106 views

Pinker on evolution, psychology, evolutionary psychology, and his hair. Interviewed by scientist/journalist and believer Robert Wright for his series of interviews on http://www.meaningoflife.tv/ He... continue reading