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Choice Blindness – Lars Hall and Petter Johansson
We have all heard of experts who fail basic tests of sensory discrimination in their own field: wine snobs who can't tell red from white wine (albeit in blackened cups), or art critics who see deep meaning in random lines drawn by a computer. We delight in such stories since anyone with pretensions to authority is fair game. But what if we shine the spotlight on choices we make about everyday things? Experts might be forgiven for being wrong about the limits of their skills as experts, but could we be forgiven for being wrong about the limits of our skills as experts on ourselves?
Who’s In Charge: Free Will and the Science of the Brain. Michael. S. Gazzaniga
Michael. S. Gazzaniga had written a number of rather brilliant books, and presented some challenging ideas. For instance, did you know that it takes longer for nerve impulses to travel from your toes to your brain, than it does from your fingers to your brain? Longer nerve pathways take longer to get there. Makes sense doesn’t it? So how come we experience things simultaneously? Touch your toe with your finger. Our brain does that, with no help from our conscious mind.
Dani Kahneman - brilliant on happiness
Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our "experiencing selves" and our "remembering selves" perceive happiness differently. This new insight has profound implications for economics, public policy -- and our own self-awareness.
This is a very useful perspective because on happiness because it suggests that how we think about ourselves effects our memory. Obvious, perhaps. And he is a great speaker.
Psychodrama without frontiers.
This video is a great story of people teaching psychodrama in difficult places, under difficult conditions with a gret outcome. The psychodrama trainers had organised permissions to cross the wall to get into Gaza. I hope you enjoy it.
The video runs for about 20 minutes. It is also sub-titled in Spanish, I believe.
Everything you know is wrong - Steven Pinker
Everything you know is wrong - Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.
