psych 201: ted talk day!

TED Talk Day!!

First, pick one of the 4 groups:

• A) Rationality, Irrationality, and Biases • B) Happiness, Optimism, and Other Emotions

• C) Morality, Politics, and Society

• D) Mapping The Brain: What We Can (And Can’t) Know

Ted Talk #1:Rationality, Irrationality, and Biases

• A) Laurie Santos– “A monkey economy is as irrational as ours.”

• B) Dan Ariely– “Are we in control of our own decisions?”

• C) Michael Shermer– “Why people believe weird things.”

• D) Tali Sharot– “The optimism bias.”

Ted Talk #2:Happiness, Optimism, and Other Emotions

• A) Martin Seligman– “The New Era of Positive Psychology”

• B) Daniel Kahneman– “The riddle of experience vs. memory.”

• C) Michael Norton– “How to buy happiness.”

• D) David Pizarro– “The Strange Politics of Disgust.”

Ted Talk #3:Morality, Politics, and Society

• A) Jonathan Haidt– The moral roots of liberals and conservatives.

• B) Dan Ariely– Our buggy moral code.

• C) Sendhil Mullainathan– Solving social problems with a nudge.

• D) Richard Wilkinson– How economic inequality harms societies.

• E) Sherry Turkle– Connected, but alone?

Ted Talk #4:Mapping The Brain: What We Can (And Can’t) Know

• A) Gero Miesenboeck– “Gero Miesenboeck Reengineers A Brain”

• B) Keith Barry– “Brain Magic”

• C) Molly Crockett– “Beware Neuro-Bunk”

• D) Matthew Lieberman– “The Social Brain And Its Superpowers”