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• Love, Belief, and Neurobiology of Attachment

A Research Channel video.  Paul J. Zak, founding director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies at Claremont Graduate University, gives a scientific twist on the topics of attachment and trust. By looking into the geographical and biological aspects of human trust, Zak presents an engaging conversation into how trust affects our behaviors, from our social interactions with strangers to people’s relationships with God and religion.

• Science of Stress

A National Geographic video. Using tools like treadmills and wicked math problems, these scientists are on a mission to prove that stress isn't all in your mind. Join them on an incredible hunt for the sources of stress.

• "The Empathic Civilization"

A TED talk.  In this animated talk, bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways it has shaped human development and society.

• John Bowlby Attachment and Loss

Dr. John Bowlby, founder of Attachment Theory, explains how the mother/father/child relationship forms the foundation for all intimate, complex relationships in our lives. This is a Lifespan Learning Institute video.

• The Cost of Social Norms

Why We Are Happy to Do Things, but Not When We Are Paid to Do Them

What Is Behavioral Economics, and Where Are the Free Lunches?

These are two clips by physicist, author, and Duke University visiting scholar,  Dan Ariely  explaining the theory and research from his book “Predictably Irrational”.