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Is 1984 Becoming a Reality? - George Orwell's Warning to the World

Thanks to Academy of Ideas in this video we explore an interesting reference between the Orwell’s novel and the times we live in.

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The Addict in Us All: How Smartphones are Creating a Population of Addicts

Thanks to Academy of Ideas this a similar video to the one above – the author explores the similarities between the novel and the times we live in.

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Common delusions and respectively ways of manipulation.

We are going to be explaining 12 cognitive biases in this video and presenting them in a format that you can easily understand to help you make better decision in your life. Cognitive biases are flaws in logical thinking that clear the path to bad decisions, so learning about these ideas can reduce errors in your thought process, leading to a more successful life. These biases are very closely related to logical fallacies, which may help you win an argument or present information better.

The Addict in Us All: How Smartphones are Creating a Population of Addicts

Thanks to Academy of Ideas in this video we explore a behavioral addiction which has become an epidemic in our time; that being the addiction to the triad of smart phones, the internet, and social media.

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How You Really Make Decisions - BBC

Biases, fallacies, post rationalization. Are we really making the decisions we think we are?

The documentary is really worth seeing even the format is weird.

Critical Thinking: Cognitive Biases

Alief

In this video, the psychologist Laurie Santos (Yale University) explains the philosopher Tamar Gendler (Yale University)'s concept of alief — an automatic or habitual mental attitude. The video discusses why aliefs differ from beliefs and how aliefs can affect our important decisions more than we expect.

Anchoring
In this video, the cognitive scientist Laurie Santos (Yale University) explains the phenomenon of anchoring. She shows how arbitrary information sometimes can sometimes act as an anchor that affects our judgments in unexpected ways.

Pricing Biases
Laurie Santos (Yale University) examines how people's economic choices tend to confuse price and value. She then describes how these so-called pricing biases compel us to incorrectly assume that higher priced goods will often work and taste better.

Reference Dependence and Loss Aversion
Laurie Santos, a psychologist at Yale University, explains two of our classic economic biases: reference dependence and loss aversion. Using a classic scenario from Kahneman and Tversky’s studies, she explores how these two biases violate economic rationality and how they affect the choices we make every day.

Mental Accounting
The psychologist Laurie Santos (Yale University) explains the phenomenon of mental accounting: why we don't always assume that money is fungible. She explores why we set up different accounts for different purchases and how we can use our mental accounting biases to be happier about our financial decisions.

Peak-End Effect
We are going to be explaining 12 cognitive biases in this video and presenting them in a format that you can easily understand to help you make better decision in your life. Cognitive biases are flaws in logical thinking that clear the path to bad decisions, so learning about these ideas can reduce errors in your thought process, leading to a more successful life. These biases are very closely related to logical fallacies, which may help you win an argument or present information better.

The GI Joe Fallacy
In this video, Laurie Santos (Yale University) discusses why knowing about our cognitive biases is not enough to overcome them. She’ll introduce a new cognitive error known as the G.I. Joe Fallacy, the tendency for our biases to stick around even when we should know better.

Manipulating the Masses - Edward Bernays and Group Psychology

In this video we look at the ideas of Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud, and a pioneering mind behind the field of public relations and modern propaganda - particularly his ideas on how group psychology can be used to manipulate the masses. Enjoy!

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What is Brainwashing? + Fast Techniques for Brainwashing

Thanks to Academy of Ideas in this lecture we investigate the phenomenon of brainwashing. We describe the 20th century British psychiatrist William Sargant's ideas regarding how the victim of brainwashing is similar to the religious convert and the therapy patient who undergo 'sudden conversions'. We finish the lecture by looking at how fear can be used as tool for 'mass brainwashing'.

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How To Brainwash A Nation

This amazing interview was done back in 1985 with a former KGB agent who was trained in subversion techniques. He explains the 4 basic steps to socially engineering entire generations into thinking and behaving the way those in power want them to. It's shocking because our nation has been transformed in the exact same way, and followed the exact same steps. The full version of the interview.

Fear and Social Control

Thanks to Academy of Ideas in this video we examine how fear can be used as a tool to manipulate others, and how those in positions of power, past and present, have effectively used fear to control certain aspects of society.

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Aldous Huxley and Brave New World: The Dark Side of Pleasure

Thans to Academy of Ideas in this video we explore the dystopian society of Brave New World and examine which elements of it pose a threat to us today.

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George Orwell and 1984: How Freedom Dies

Thanks to Academy of Ideas in this video we explore why Orwell believed totalitarianism was a great risk in the modern West, contrasting his ideas with those of Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World.

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Why the majority is always wrong - Paul Rulkens

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx presents one of the most briliant TED talks. Enjoy!

12 Cognitive Biases Explained
How to Think Better and More Logically Removing Bias

Do you sometimes feel more upset or sad the more you think of a certain situation, person or yourself? Maybe you want to consider the possibility of thinking in a different way?

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How Our Cognitive Biases Create Emotional Conflict, and How to Rise above It - Dan Shapiro

So look, we all experience emotionally charged conflicts: whether it’s in the workplace, whether it’s a colleague, whether it’s at home with a spouse, whether it’s even in our country dealing with political issues.

The challenge is how do we deal with it most effectively? And my sense is that most people come in with like the quick-fix answer, the rational approaches. “Just listen a little bit more. Talk a little bit less.” And that’s useful but that’s not enough...

The Milgram experiment - 2 min.

Clip with original footage from the Milgram Experiment.

Shocking results.

The Psychology of Obedience and The Virtue of Disobedience

Thanks to Academy of Ideas In this video we examine the psychology of obedience, paying particular attention to why people obey those in power even if it means committing actions that in any other situation they would view as immoral. We will also examine disobedience and how it acts as a crucial counter-force to the rise of an oppressive government.

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The Illusion of Truth

If you repeat something enough times, it comes to feel good and true.

This episode was inspired by the book Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.

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The paradox of choice - Barry Schwartz

Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz's estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.

The secret of self motivation One of the best speeches Ever - Mel Robbins

The secret of self motivation One of the best speeches Ever (Mel Robbins) Melanie "Mel" Robbins coach, motivational speaker. is a powerhouse speaker with one of the top 20 TEDx talks in the world. Robbins is best known for covering George Zimmermann's experience and his book the 5 second rule.