Topic
Psychology
38 videos

TED
Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | Tim Urban
A hilarious and honest exploration of the procrastinator's brain.

TED
Your body language may shape who you are | Amy Cuddy
How body language shapes self-perception: fake it till you become it.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (TED)
The Danger of a Single Story
Stereotypes, narrative power and identity

Tony Robbins (TED)
Why We Do What We Do
Human needs and motivation psychology

TED
The Power of Vulnerability | Brene Brown
Research on shame, vulnerability, and why they are the root of human connection.

TED-Ed
What is depression? - Helen M. Farrell
The biology, symptoms, and treatments for major depressive disorder explained clearly.

TED-Ed
Plato's Allegory of the Cave
Visual explanation of Plato's epistemology

TED-Ed
How stress affects your brain - Madhumita Murgia
How chronic stress shrinks the prefrontal cortex and expands the amygdala.

TED
The Paradox of Choice – Why More Is Less | Barry Schwartz
How an abundance of options leads to anxiety, paralysis, and less satisfaction.

Aperture
Stoicism: Become Undefeatable
A video about stoicism become undefeatable.

Barry Schwartz (TED)
The Paradox of Choice
Why more options lead to less happiness

MIT OpenCourseWare
1. Introduction to the Human Brain
A video about 1 introduction to the human brain.

TED-Ed
The philosophy of Stoicism - Massimo Pigliucci
A video about the philosophy of stoicism massimo pigliucci.

Alain de Botton (TED)
A Kinder, Gentler Philosophy of Success
Career anxiety and meritocracy critique

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (TED)
Flow: The Secret to Happiness
Optimal experience and positive psychology

TEDx Talks
The Psychology of Self-Motivation | Scott Geller | TEDxVirginiaTech
The behavioral science of intrinsic motivation: competence, consequence, and choice.

Philip Zimbardo (TED)
The Psychology of Evil
Stanford Prison Experiment author on situational evil

CrashCourse
The Chemical Mind: Crash Course Psychology #3
BAHHHHHH! Did I scare you? What exactly happens when we get scared? How does our brain make our body react? Just what ...

SoulPancake / Emiliana Simon-Thomas
The Science of Happiness
Positive psychology research findings

Crash Course Philosophy
Kant's Moral Philosophy
Categorical imperative and deontological ethics

David Chalmers (TED)
The Puzzle of Conscious Experience
The hard problem of consciousness

Daniel Kahneman (Talks at Google)
Thinking Fast and Slow
System 1 vs System 2 thinking explained by Kahneman

Robert Sapolsky
Free Will Is An Illusion
Neuroscience and determinism lecture

TED-Ed
How to get motivated even when you don’t feel like it
Explore the psychology of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and dig into how these forces contribute to our drive. -- Motivation is ...