psych 201: ted talk day!
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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”