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Video Clips

Sheena Iyengar: The Art of Choosing

A discussion of how choices are made and how we feel about the choices we make. The talk covers trivial and profound choices and their implications.

Dan Ariely: Are We in Control of Our Own Decisions?

How we’re not as rational as we think when we make decisions. Insight on this idea is provided by visual illusions and other research findings

Barry Schwartz: The Paradox of Choice

How freedom of choice makes us freer but can lead to paralyzing choices. Our choices may make us happier but more dissatisfied.

The Neuroeconomics of Simple Choice: Antonio Rangel at TEDxCaltech

What in our brains makes us different from other people? How neurobiology tries to link social sciences and biological sciences through the use of computational models

Gerd Gigerenzer – Heuristics

An explanation of what a heuristic is. How heuristics can influence our decisions in an uncertain world.

Gerd Gigerenzer – Selection of Heuristics

When to use which heuristics. Genetics, individual learning, and social learning are sources of what heuristics to use and when.

Daniel Kahneman: The Riddle of Experience vs. Memory

An explanation of how the self can be influenced by experience and memory. Implications for economics, public policy, and self-awareness are discussed.

Logical Minds of Babies

Laura Schulz changes our notions about the development of human reasoning ability.

Causal Reasoning in Animals

New research suggests crows can determine the hidden cause behind certain events.

Audio Clips

Where Your Brain Figures Out What It Doesn’t Know

How people engage in metacognition and how it influences one’s confidence in making decisions.

“How We Decide” and the Paralysis of Analysis

The extent to which rationality and emotion play into making decisions, and how to get better at making decisions

Motivated Reasoning: A Philosopher on Confirmation Bias

Confirmation bias affects how we attend to and respond to information presented by the news media.