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The Psychology of Hate: How We Deny Human Beings Their Humanity
The Psychology of Hate: How We Deny Human Beings Their Humanity
From slavery to genocide, society has shown a terrifying ability to disregard the personhood of others. Here's why.
Nicholas Epley · 8,146 views · 75%
The Psychology of Religion: A Force For Good or Evil?
The Psychology of Religion: A Force For Good or Evil?
Is religion the source of conflict, or are deeper problems to blame? Militant atheists such as Richard Dawkins compare religion to a virus which infects human minds and turns potentially rational people into dogmatic automatons, willing to kill and die for their beliefs. But...
Steve Taylor Ph.D. · 6,252 views · 94%
Toward a Liberation Psychology
Toward a Liberation Psychology
Liberation psychology doesn’t equate a lack of adjustment with mental illness, but instead promotes constructive rebel­lion against dehumanizing institutions, and which also provides strategies to build a genuinely democratic society.
Bruce E. Levine · 3,507 views · 100%
Ecocide: The Psychology of Environmental Destruction
Ecocide: The Psychology of Environmental Destruction
Recent scientific reports about climate change make grim reading. A paper published in The Economic Journal by the respected UK economist Lord Stern states that the models previously used to calculate the economic effects of climate change have been ‘woefully inadequate.’...
Steve Taylor Ph.D. · 38,406 views · 98%
The Psychology of Narcissism, Explained in This 5 Minute Animated Film 5 min
The Psychology of Narcissism, Explained in This 5 Minute Animated Film
Narcissism isn't just a personality type that shows up in advice columns; it's actually a set of traits classified and studied by psychologists. But what causes it? And can narcissists improve on their negative traits? W. Keith Campbell describes the psychology behind the...
TED-Ed · 57,182 views · 80%
The Psychology of the Religious Right 18 min
The Psychology of the Religious Right
Let's take a dive into the minds of the religious right and discover how their distinct and zealous approach to matters of faith has affected the current political landscape.- Andrewism
Andrewism · 3,386 views · 100%
The Psychology of the Portland Green Frog 5 min
The Psychology of the Portland Green Frog
Dr. Geoffrey Grammer discusses an unusual protest trend in Portland where demonstrators wear inflatable frog costumes. These protestors aim to disarm the projection of violence onto them by the Trump administration. Using the concept of projective identification from...
Grammer's State of Mind · 698 views · unrated
The Psychology of Israeli Propaganda 70 min
The Psychology of Israeli Propaganda
Who are the main targets of Israeli propaganda? Why do they believe in it? - Indie Nile
Indie Nile · 638 views · unrated
Carnism: The Psychology of Eating Meat 60 min
Carnism: The Psychology of Eating Meat
Melanie Joy presents "Carnism: The Psychology of Eating Meat" at the McDougall Advanced Study Weekend, February 2012.Kick back, relax, and open your ears to this wonderful and fluid speech about what allows people to eat some animals but not others, what these animals seen as...
Dr. McDougall Health & Medical Center · 8,454 views · 77%
Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump 2 min
Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump (trailer)
Is Donald Trump fit to hold the office of President of the United States? In the military, there's a program called the Personnel Reliability Program (PRP), which assesses individuals for personal reliability. They screen for factors like personal defects, financial issues...
1,218 views · unrated
Is Toxic Masculinity a Mask for Anxiety?
Is Toxic Masculinity a Mask for Anxiety?
What is it that makes so many boys grow up to believe that sex is theirs for the taking?
Ruth C. White Ph.D. · 3,462 views · 100%
Why Children Protest Going to School
Why Children Protest Going to School
Most children in our society protest going to school. Am I telling you something new?
Peter Gray · 30,490 views · 100%
How Hunter-Gatherers Maintained Their Egalitarian Ways: Three Complementary Theories
How Hunter-Gatherers Maintained Their Egalitarian Ways: Three Complementary Theories
As regular readers of this blog know, I have in previous posts commented on hunter-gatherers' playfulness; their playful religious practices; their
Peter Gray · 44,767 views · 100%
15 Ways to Get Someone Out of Your Head
15 Ways to Get Someone Out of Your Head
Expert tips to manage your frustration and get past toxic thinking.
Donna Jackson Nakazawa · 57,311 views · 75%
Do French Kids Have ADHD?
Do French Kids Have ADHD?
France's holistic, psychosocial approach to treating ADHD-type symptoms.
Marilyn Wedge · 201,702 views · 95%
Why Some People Resent "Do-Gooders"
Why Some People Resent "Do-Gooders"
Behaving according to one’s moral principles can make others feel implicitly judged.
Juliana Breines Ph.D. · 8,673 views · unrated
Play Makes Us Human: Hunter-Gatherers' Playful Parenting
Play Makes Us Human: Hunter-Gatherers' Playful Parenting
Have you ever noticed how we, as a society, use agricultural metaphors to talk about parenting and education? We speak of raising children, just as we speak of raising tomatoes or chickens. We speak of training children, just as we speak of training horses. Our manner of...
Peter Gray, Ph.D. · 1,625 views · 75%
Seven Sins of Our System of Forced Education
Seven Sins of Our System of Forced Education
Sometimes I find, no matter how uncomfortable it makes me and others feel, I have to speak the truth. We can use all the euphemisms we want, but the literal truth is that schools, as they generally exist in the United States and other modern countries, are prisons. Human...
Peter Gray, Ph.D. · 98,087 views · 90%
How Does Addiction Relate to Our Relationship to the Living World?
How Does Addiction Relate to Our Relationship to the Living World?
The recently published piece titled ‘The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think' gave me a lot of food for thought for how we relate to the phenomena of addiction, and how society goes about treating it. As a budding cultural ecologist...
Sarah Levine · 21,900 views · 92%
Why Do People Defend Unjust, Inept, and Corrupt Systems?
Why Do People Defend Unjust, Inept, and Corrupt Systems?
Why do we stick up for a system or institution we live in -- a government, company, or marriage -- even when anyone else can see it is failing miserably? Why do we resist change even when the system is corrupt or unjust?
Science Daily · 20,989 views · 100%
Why Modern Democracy Is Just a Polite Dictatorship – Plato Knew This 30 min
Why Modern Democracy Is Just a Polite Dictatorship – Plato Knew This
Is modern democracy truly freedom, or just a more polite form of control? In this eye-opening analysis, we explore Plato's philosophy, uncovering how democracies evolve into authoritarian systems, not through force, but through psychological manipulation, media control, and...
Philosophy Coded · 799 views · unrated
Scientists Find Magic Mushrooms Could Help Fight Fascism
Scientists Find Magic Mushrooms Could Help Fight Fascism
Researchers found unlikely heroes in keeping the world from authoritarianism  - magic mushrooms. Scientists from the Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial College London showed that psilocybin, the active compound in psychedelic mushrooms, makes people less likely to embrace...
Paul Ratner · 21,720 views · unrated
We Are All Human: 10 Labels We Need to Stop Using to Describe People
We Are All Human: 10 Labels We Need to Stop Using to Describe People
Humans have an innate desire to place labels on everything. Labels give people a sense of order, and a way of distinguishing things.
John Haltiwanger · 7,126 views · 88%
Neurons to Nirvana (trailer) 2 min
Neurons to Nirvana (trailer)
NEURONS TO NIRVANA is a feature documentary about the resurgence of psychedelics as medicine. Through interviews with the world’s foremost researchers, writers, psychologists and pioneers in psychedelic psychotherapy, the film explores the history of five powerful psychedelic...
5,857 views · 69%
What Makes Trump & MAGA So Cruel? A Psychiatrist Explains 14 min
What Makes Trump & MAGA So Cruel? A Psychiatrist Explains
Have you ever wondered why Trump and MAGA seem so cruel to many people? In this video, psychiatrist Dr Russell Razzaque explains the psychological factors at play. We'll dive into the emotional and mental drivers behind these political movements and why they resonate with so...
Dr Russell Razzaque · 4,716 views · 94%
The Highest Act of Love In a Criminally Insane Society is Disobedience
The Highest Act of Love In a Criminally Insane Society is Disobedience
Our consumer culture is collective insanity and it's driving us to destruction, says clinical psychologist John F Schumaker.
John Schumaker · 4,376 views · 100%
The Psychological Case Against Materialism
The Psychological Case Against Materialism
Love of stuff will make you unhappy: You know this, and in case you forget, there is probably, somewhere, some version of A Christmas Carol playing on television right now to remind you. But in a release from the American Psychological Association, psychology professor Tim...
Melissa Dahl · 4,023 views · 75%
Our Un-Soulful Economy
Our Un-Soulful Economy
Soul is often defined as the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal.  This definition is not without its critics, as it arbitrarily stops at animals. What about plants and trees?  Do they have souls?  Indeed, it could be argued that plants and trees have some...
Terry Sexton · 3,895 views · 94%
How Washington and its Allies Use Social Media to Topple Governments & Manipulate Public Opinion 14 min
How Washington and its Allies Use Social Media to Topple Governments & Manipulate Public Opinion
StormCloudsGathering · 3,401 views · 100%
It's Time For Vulnerable Politics 30 min
It's Time For Vulnerable Politics
In his keynote at the Burning Man European Leadership Summit, Ronan Harrington calls for a politics that recognises the one thing that we all have in common: our vulnerability.
Burning Man Project · 2,244 views · 94%
What happens at an ALTER EGO gathering ? 4 min
What happens at an ALTER EGO gathering ?
For the past two years, Alter Ego has been gathering new cultural and political leaders to rethink politics and our vision of progress. This is a behind the scenes of our first gathering in 2016, where we explored spirituality as a transformative source of political renewal...
1,825 views · 81%
How to Recover from Depression: Why Skills are Better than Pills 63 min
How to Recover from Depression: Why Skills are Better than Pills
Leading depression expert and clinical psychologist Dr Michael Yapko draws on research and shares his insights from 40 years of working with those suffering this common mental health issue. Learn the simple skills that research shows can help you or a loved one to recover ...
Psychlopaedia.org · 1,222 views · unrated
My Descent Into America's Neo-Nazi movement & How I Got Out | Christian Picciolini 21 min
My Descent Into America's Neo-Nazi movement & How I Got Out | Christian Picciolini
At 14-years-old, Christian Picciolini went from naive teenager to white supremacist, and soon, the leader of America’s first neo-Nazi skinhead gang. How was he radicalized, and how did he ultimately get out?
TEDx Talks · 1,053 views · unrated
Why Elites Ruined the Left Right Political Spectrum (and Why We Need It Back!) 54 min
Why Elites Ruined the Left Right Political Spectrum (and Why We Need It Back!)
This video explains: 1. What the political left and right actually mean 2. Why elites don’t want us to know what they mean 3. How confusion about left and right is a major cause of growing inequality 4. How understanding what left and right mean is a key tool in the fight for...
WHAT IS POLITICS? · 761 views · unrated
What Are Democratic Schools?
What Are Democratic Schools?
Imagine a school where children and teenagers are accorded all the rights and responsibilities of democratic citizenship; where students truly practice, rather than just read about, the principles of free speech, free association, and freedom to choose their own activities...
Alternatives to School · 5,982 views · 100%
Joanna Macy On Staying Sane in a Toxic Culture
Joanna Macy On Staying Sane in a Toxic Culture
"All you can know is your allegiance to life and your intention to serve it in this moment that we are given." - Joanna Macy
Dahr Jamail · 12,482 views · unrated
The Healthy Masculinity of Ted Lasso | A Therapist Explains 21 min
The Healthy Masculinity of Ted Lasso | A Therapist Explains
A videoessay breaking down the masculinity in the apple tv show Ted Lasso, starring Jason Sudekis as a football coach. This analysis considers the healthy masculinity of characters such as Roy Kent, the developing masculinity of Jamie Tartt, as well as touching on the toxic...
A Therapist Explains · 2,071 views · unrated
Why Are We so Attached to Our Things? 4 min
Why Are We so Attached to Our Things?
After witnessing the "violent rage" shown by babies whenever deprived of an item they considered their own, Jean Piaget - a founding father of child psychology - observed something profound about human nature: Our sense of ownership emerges incredibly early. But why do we...
TED-Ed · 35,232 views · 81%
Humanity's Greatest Challenges Aren't Technical, They're Human 8 min
Humanity's Greatest Challenges Aren't Technical, They're Human
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is incomplete as we commonly know it. Later in his life, Maslow wrote about a stage beyond self-actualization. Nichol Brandford explains how to arrive at this final place.
Nichol Bradford · 18,761 views · 100%
The Resolution of Jordan Peterson: Truth, Lies, and Reconciliation in a Time of Chaos
The Resolution of Jordan Peterson: Truth, Lies, and Reconciliation in a Time of Chaos
This article is Part 3 in The Abs-Tract Organization’s series on Jordan B. Peterson, following from The Detraction of Jordan Peterson: Constructive Criticism to a Public Intellectual (A Critique), which was a follow-up to
Brent Cooper · 3,410 views · 100%
What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?
What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?
Negative consequences, timeouts, and punishment just make bad behavior worse. But a new approach really works.
Katherine Reynolds Lewis · 460,155 views · 100%
Facing Psychological Coercion and Manipulation Has Become a Daily Part of Claiming Benefits
Facing Psychological Coercion and Manipulation Has Become a Daily Part of Claiming Benefits
Curing unemployment is a growth market for psychologists. Job Centres are becoming medical centres, claimants are becoming patients, and unemployment is being redefined as a psychological disorder.
Felicity Callard and Robert Stearn · 4,247 views · unrated
Don’t Chase Happiness. Become Antifragile | Tal Ben-Shahar 8 min
Don’t Chase Happiness. Become Antifragile | Tal Ben-Shahar
Antifragility is the idea of putting pressure on a system, or human, the system or human actually grows bigger and stronger. Antifragile systems are all around us. One example of this is our muscular system. We go to the gym to lift weights. By doing so we are putting...
Tal Ben-Shahar · 2,003 views · unrated
A Psychologist Explains Why People Don't Give a Shit About Climate Change
A Psychologist Explains Why People Don't Give a Shit About Climate Change
"We [should] tell new stories of the dream, not the nightmares. We must describe where we want to go, such as happier lives, and better cities."
Bill Kilby · 94,027 views · 75%
Why Hierarchy Creates a Destructive Force Within the Human Psyche 9 min
Why Hierarchy Creates a Destructive Force Within the Human Psyche
Dr. Robert Sapolsky discusses some rather amazing discoveries related to the social and personal consequences of hierarchy.
TheSymposionNights · 57,678 views · 96%
I Am Fishead 78 min
I Am Fishead (2011)
"WHAT'S WRONG WITH OUR WORLD? THIS IS A FILM FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO KNOW."
36,225 views · 76%
Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us 11 min
Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us
This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace.
The RSA · 24,989 views · 82%
Stare Into The Lights My Pretties 129 min
Stare Into The Lights My Pretties (2017)
We live in a world of screens. The average adult spends the majority of their waking hours in front of some sort of screen or device. We're enthralled, we're addicted to these machines. How did we get here? Who benefits? What are the cumulative impacts on people, society and...
24,979 views · 80%
The Mother Wound as a Missing Link to Understanding Misogyny
The Mother Wound as a Missing Link to Understanding Misogyny
A fascinating insight into what perpetuates patriarchy in our society, and how we can change it.
Bethany Webster · 23,054 views · 100%
Ghetto Physics 2 min
Ghetto Physics (trailer)
Ghetto Physics: Will the Real Pimps and Ho's Please Stand Up! examines the interplay between Pimps and Ho's and how that dynamic is the simplest expression of how power is wielded in the world. Through examples culled from the Hood to Wall Street, the film shows how the same...
9,751 views · 81%
Tough Talk: Season 1, A Series About Men's Mental Health 200 min
Tough Talk: Season 1, A Series About Men's Mental Health
Tough Talk is a documentary series created to reduce the stigma surrounding men's mental health. Sam O'Sullivan is a Kiwi psychologist who gets off the beaten track and travels in his van around his home country of New Zealand to film conversations with everyday men about...
8,514 views · 94%
Richard Wolff takes on Jordan B. Peterson 5 min
Richard Wolff takes on Jordan B. Peterson
Prof. Wolff responds to Jordan Peterson's assertions about Marxism.
RichardDWolff · 4,935 views · 75%
Why Serious Play Is Transformative 5 min
Why Serious Play Is Transformative
We shouldn't reduce all play to entertaining play. Some play is the serious play that engages fundamental transformative processes for us. Rafe Kelley in conversation with John Vaervake.
John Vervaeke’s Lectern · 4,494 views · unrated
Radical Honesty – What If We All Told The Truth? 15 min
Radical Honesty – What If We All Told The Truth?
Video essay on the ubiquity of lying, both in the stories we tell as well as in real life, and why perhaps we should try being a little more honest.
Like Stories of Old · 4,230 views · unrated
Why Humans Are so Bad at Thinking About Climate Change 10 min
Why Humans Are so Bad at Thinking About Climate Change
The biggest problem for the climate change fight isn’t technology – it’s human psychology.
Vox · 4,204 views · unrated
I Believe in Breaking Good
I Believe in Breaking Good
It's interesting to watch Breaking Bad and realize most people probably think/fear the world is run by thugs who would do anything for m
Tim Anderson · 4,044 views · 100%
The Tribal Identity - Paradigm for the Next Generation 25 min
The Tribal Identity - Paradigm for the Next Generation
The next generation needs a paradigm and a code of identity that bind with a sense of purpose, community, and mission; an idea and a feeling that transcend superficial characteristics (like skin color, gender and orientation).
StormCloudsGathering · 3,965 views · unrated
Mind Over Money 53 min
Mind Over Money (2010)
In the aftermath of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, NOVA presents "Mind Over Money"—an entertaining and penetrating exploration of why mainstream economists failed to predict the crash of 2008 and why we so often make irrational financial decisions. The...
3,738 views · 75%
The Archetype of the Warrior – How Films Help Empower Us All 13 min
The Archetype of the Warrior – How Films Help Empower Us All
Exploring the Archetype of the Warrior in films, based on Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette’s King, Warrior, Magician, Lover and Carol S. Pearson’s The Hero Within.
Like Stories of Old · 3,502 views · 100%
Despite Our Despair, There's a Reality Worth Fighting For
Despite Our Despair, There's a Reality Worth Fighting For
Those who are enduring injustice, exploitation, and oppression—whether people, animals, or ecosystems—need us to believe that wrongs can be righted and to take action accordingly.
Zoe Weil · 2,616 views · unrated
Resilience: What Makes the Soul Strong 52 min
Resilience: What Makes the Soul Strong (2024)
Around one billion people struggle with stress-related illness globally - and that figure is rising. What protects those with good mental health? Is their resilience innate? Or is the ability to withstand chronic stress and crisis something that can be learned? In the search...
2,469 views · unrated
Reconciling Two Incompatible Sacred Values in American Universities: Jon Haidt 67 min
Reconciling Two Incompatible Sacred Values in American Universities: Jon Haidt
Professor Haidt argues that conflicts arise at many American universities today because they are pursuing two potentially incompatible goals: truth and social justice. While Haidt thinks both goals are important, he maintains that they can come into conflict. According to...
Duke University Department of Political Science · 2,451 views · unrated
Nonviolent Communication with Dr Roxy Manning 35 min
Nonviolent Communication with Dr Roxy Manning
This is the full interview of Dr Roxy Manning on the subject of Nonviolent Communication.
BodeRiis · 1,306 views · unrated
Worbs: When Political Terms Have No Meaning 34 min
Worbs: When Political Terms Have No Meaning
Politics is the only practical discipline where none of the basic concepts have clear consensus definitions. This is why everything is so dumb.
WHAT IS POLITICS? · 1,212 views · unrated
How do we get to UBI and Post-Labor Economics? Decentralized Ownership: the New Social Contract! 40 min
How do we get to UBI and Post-Labor Economics? Decentralized Ownership: the New Social Contract!
A fantastic brainstorming podcast on the future of automation, society and work, and how to ensure automation helps society rather than trigger an unemployment crisis.
David Shapiro · 1,120 views · unrated
Climate Inertia: Why Change Feels Impossible 50 min
Climate Inertia: Why Change Feels Impossible (2022)
We have never been so aware of the risk of collapse due to climate change. And yet, it seems we are unable to make the collective change the situation seems to demand. How can we explain our collective inertia in the face of the ongoing environmental crisis? Why can’t our...
Raphaël Hitier · 1,105 views · unrated
Here's How Negative Thinking Is Changing Your Brain
Here's How Negative Thinking Is Changing Your Brain
If you’ve ever found yourself trapped in a seemingly endless loop of negative thinking, or wondered why you fixate on a stray rude comment but easily forget compliments, you may have a culprit to blame: evolution.
Kathleen Toohill · 58,070 views · 83%
How to Resist the Pressures of Conformity 10 min
How to Resist the Pressures of Conformity
The social psychology of conformity affects us all, but there are ways to maintain our independence, as explained in this animated short.
TheraminTrees · 36,040 views · 81%
Positive Parenting: How to Raise Your Children With Unconditional Love
Positive Parenting: How to Raise Your Children With Unconditional Love
Parenthood lies deep within us. We are wired to help our little ones survive and prosper. Modern life, however, has removed us from our natural environment. It can be hard to raise a child in world of fear and distractions. Science and psychology bring back a big dose of...
Vegard Gjerde · 26,012 views · unrated
Touch Isolation: How Homophobia Has Robbed All Men Of Touch
Touch Isolation: How Homophobia Has Robbed All Men Of Touch
Homophobic prohibitions against male touch are hurting straight men as well.
Mark Greene · 450,578 views · 100%
Descartes Was Wrong - A Person Is a Person Through Other Persons
Descartes Was Wrong - A Person Is a Person Through Other Persons
According to Ubuntu philosophy, which has its origins in ancient Africa, a newborn baby is not a person. People are born without ‘ena’, or selfhood, and instead must acquire it through interactions and experiences over time. So the ‘self’/‘other’ distinction that’s axiomatic...
Abeba Birhane · 1,192 views · unrated
The Left's Self-Destructive Obsession with Shame
The Left's Self-Destructive Obsession with Shame
Perhaps the most redeeming aspect of my father’s ministry was his tireless work to help people heal from guilt and shame. I saw the transformative impact that his efforts had on people’s lives as they built the strength to lay down years of resentment and bitterness, and...
R.L. Stephens · 22,371 views · 100%
Turning Eco-Anxiety into Eco-Action | Our Broken Planet 63 min
Turning Eco-Anxiety into Eco-Action | Our Broken Planet
At times it can be overwhelming to contemplate the challenges we face in the Anthropocene, from the climate crisis to biodiversity loss. The hurdles in the way of a sustainable future can sometimes feel insurmountable - but each of us is capable of making a difference.
Natural History Museum · 10,124 views · 62%
Why Does Our Culture Focus So Much on Childbirth and So Little on The Time After?
Why Does Our Culture Focus So Much on Childbirth and So Little on The Time After?
Kathleen Kendall-Tackett examines how other cultures protect new mothers’ well-being.
Dr. Kathleen Kendall-Tackett · 313,185 views · 88%
Why We Pick Difficult Partners 6 min
Why We Pick Difficult Partners
In theory, we're nowadays allowed to get together with pretty much anyone we like. And yet, at a psychological level, we aren't free to love just any suitable person. We have a type - and strangely and awkwardly, these types are often not those who stand a chance of making us...
The School of Life · 46,178 views · 100%
Is Trump Acting Out His Childhood Trauma? Russell Brand & Dr. Gabor Maté 10 min
Is Trump Acting Out His Childhood Trauma? Russell Brand & Dr. Gabor Maté
Is Trump Acting Out His Childhood Trauma On The People Of America? Today's video features Dr. Gabor Maté a renowned expert in addiction and trauma - here he is diagnosing Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Obama! Check out the full Under The Skin episode here.
Russell Brand · 16,376 views · 75%
20 Signs You're Emotionally Mature 8 min
20 Signs You're Emotionally Mature
However old we might be, none of us is ever quite emotionally mature - but having a list to hand of what maturity consists of might be a way of keeping score and nudging ourselves in the right direction. Here is a comprehensive list of what maturity might comprise.
The School of Life · 9,386 views · 100%
Why Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs Matters 7 min
Why Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs Matters
Maslow's Hierarchy, (or Pyramid), of Needs is one of the central ideas in modern economics and sociology. The work of a once little-known American psychologist, it has grown into an indispensable guide to understanding the modern world. This film explains who Maslow was, what...
The School of Life · 8,387 views · 75%
How To Choose A Partner Wisely 6 min
How To Choose A Partner Wisely
We’re given very little guidance on how to choose our partners and tend to leave it to that mysterious force we know as ‘instinct’. However, it truly pays to be a little more rational in this area and work out how our instincts operate and why they push us towards some people...
The School of Life · 7,300 views · unrated
Raoul Martinez on The Myth of Responsibility 5 min
Raoul Martinez on The Myth of Responsibility
Are we wholly responsible for our actions? We don’t choose our brains, our genetic inheritance, our circumstances, our milieu – so how much control do we really have over our lives? Philosopher Raoul Martinez argues that no one is truly blameworthy. Our most visionary...
The RSA · 6,689 views · 100%
Is There an Alternative to Political Correctness? 7 min
Is There an Alternative to Political Correctness?
Political correctness aims for some very nice results, but its means have a habit of upsetting a lot of people. Might there be an alternative to it? We think there is, and it’s called Politeness.
The School of Life · 6,517 views · 94%
The Secrets of a Privileged Childhood 5 min
The Secrets of a Privileged Childhood
When we think of a privileged childhood, we often think of swimming pools, nannies and expensive education. In fact, of course, the only childhoods that properly deserve the word 'privileged' are those in which there was an abundance of love.
The School of Life · 6,438 views · 58%
Of Course You've Messed Up 6 min
Of Course You've Messed Up
This is a film for those moments when we (again) hit rock bottom, when we're back in that old familiar place where nothing feels right, we hate ourselves and the future looks bleak. It's so easy to be sad - but maybe there could be another option? Maybe we could learn to make...
The School of Life · 5,654 views · 88%
Ecosophia: Ecological Wisdom 77 min
Ecosophia: Ecological Wisdom (2024) ($4)
Ecosophia means ecological wisdom in Greek and this documentary explores the meta-crisis and interrelation between energy, the laws of thermodynamics, the economy, resources, exponential growth, climate change, population, psychology and degrowth solutions.
Peter C Downey · 5,463 views · 100%
Theory of Enchantment 101 46 min
Theory of Enchantment 101
The Theory of Enchantment course provides educators with a world-class social-emotional learning program (SEL) that integrates pop culture with developmental psychology. This program helps educators transform the lives of their students and motivates them to maximize their...
Chloe Valdary · 4,283 views · unrated
SHOCK Video: George W Bush ADMITS He's A War Criminal In Freudian Slip! 10 min
SHOCK Video: George W Bush ADMITS He's A War Criminal In Freudian Slip!
Gotta agree with Bush on this one. Putin is a war criminal, and so is Bush.
Secular Talk · 3,968 views · 100%
How To Be A Man 5 min
How To Be A Man
The idea of manliness has grown indelibly associated with the idea of being cool. We’d be wiser to shift the masculine ideal towards a new idea: warmth.
The School of Life · 3,907 views · 38%
'Anti-Woke' Bank COLLAPSES After 3 Months | The Kyle Kulinski Show 13 min
'Anti-Woke' Bank COLLAPSES After 3 Months | The Kyle Kulinski Show
The bank that went 'anti-woke' has apparently... gone broke.
Secular Talk · 3,691 views · unrated
BOMBSHELL: DeSantis Oversaw TORTURE At Guantanamo Bay | The Kyle Kulinski Show 12 min
BOMBSHELL: DeSantis Oversaw TORTURE At Guantanamo Bay | The Kyle Kulinski Show
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Secular Talk · 3,587 views · unrated
3 Great Untruths to Stop Telling Kids—and Ourselves | Jonathan Haidt 6 min
3 Great Untruths to Stop Telling Kids—and Ourselves | Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan Haidt explains three areas where we need to update our understanding of the world.
Big Think · 3,311 views · unrated
BOMBSHELL: 60% Of Pentagon Money Is Missing | The Kyle Kulinski Show 13 min
BOMBSHELL: 60% Of Pentagon Money Is Missing | The Kyle Kulinski Show
This should be on the front page of every newspaper, but it's not.
The Kyle Kulinski Show · 2,374 views · unrated
4 Day Work Week Comes To The UK! | The Kyle Kulinski Show 14 min
4 Day Work Week Comes To The UK! | The Kyle Kulinski Show
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The Kyle Kulinski Show · 1,990 views · unrated
How To Simplify Your Life 7 min
How To Simplify Your Life
What many of us long for more than anything else is a simpler life; we feel overwhelmed by our responsibilities, schedules, commitments and obligations. This is a film about how to create the simpler life we deserve.
The School of Life · 1,386 views · unrated
Here's Exactly How to Respond When Someone You Love Says Climate Change Isn't Real
Here's Exactly How to Respond When Someone You Love Says Climate Change Isn't Real
There's overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change; 97 percent of scientists agree that humans have created conditions that are drastically reshaping the planet's climate, with disastrous results, and one scientist noted in September 2018 that the scientific community is
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Why Facts Don't Change Minds (Goose Explains) 5 min
Why Facts Don't Change Minds (Goose Explains)
goose thought facts were enough.but brains aren’t spreadsheets. they’re nests.and some geese would rather honk louder than feel wrong.
Honkology · 1,325 views · unrated
Social Media Capitalism is DESTROYING Your Mind 10 min
Social Media Capitalism is DESTROYING Your Mind
“We are not medieval peasants begging at the court of King Zuckerberg. We are the free citizens of democracy."
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How Advertising Creates Cultural Violence | Peter Joseph 3 min
How Advertising Creates Cultural Violence | Peter Joseph
Are we shaping our lives, or is an invisible hand steering us towards a cliff?
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US Accuses 'Zero Hedge' Of Russian Disinformation, Claim is Unironically US Disinformation 10 min
US Accuses 'Zero Hedge' Of Russian Disinformation, Claim is Unironically US Disinformation
Most people will just read the article's title, but the claim is undermined in the article's own fine print.
Secular Talk · 981 views · unrated
Depression is a Disease of Civilization: Stephen Ilardi at TEDxEmory 23 min
Depression is a Disease of Civilization: Stephen Ilardi at TEDxEmory
Dr. Stephen Ilardi is a professor of clinical psychology and the author of The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression Without Drugs.
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How to Defeat Negative Thinking 2 min
How to Defeat Negative Thinking
Negative thinking can get the best of us at the worst of times. But there's hope! Positive psychology Coach Derrick Carpenter reveals two key tactics that will intercept and defeat these thoughts before they have a chance to infiltrate your life.
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