This week's episode of The Mind Report (from BloggingHeads.tv) features Laurie Santos (Associate Professor of Psychology at Yale) speaking with Kent Kiehl, author of The Psychopath Whisperer: The Science of Those Without Conscience (and Professor of Psychology at UNM).

The Mind Report - Laurie Santos and Kent Kiehl Discuss The Psychopath Whisperer

Laurie Santos (Yale University) and Kent Kiehl (University of New Mexico, The Mind Research Network, The Psychopath Whisperer)

• Kent’s new book, “The Psychopath Whisperer”    6:14
• Doing neuroscience research on psychopathic prisoners    7:12
• Is there a moral center of the brain?    3:33
• Can psychopathy be treated?    8:34
• Abnormal brains, moral culpability, and free will    4:19
• Kent’s vision for the future of psychopath research    5:51

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• Kent’s new book, The Psychopath Whisperer: The Science of Those Without Conscience

The Mind Report | Jun 30, 2014 | Laurie Santos & Kent Kiehl

The Mind Report - Philosopher Joshua Knobe Speaks with Michael Norton (Harvard Business School)

Cool discussion between philosopher Joshua Knobe and Michael Norton, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University. Norton is the co-author (with Elizabeth Dunn) of Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending (2013).

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The Mind Report | Mar 2, 2014 | Joshua Knobe & Michael Norton


Joshua Knobe (Yale University) and Michael Norton (Harvard Business School)

Americans have no idea how unequal America is 6:35 Psychological effects of income inequality 4:48 The embarrassment of riches 4:00 When economic growth leads to less happiness 4:51 What to buy to make you happy (hint: it’s not stuff) 8:45 The “warm glow” of giving money away 6:13
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Recorded: Feb 25 |  Posted: Mar 2, 2014
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Links Mentioned

• Michael’s paper, “Building a Better America—One Wealth Quintile at a Time” (PDF)
• Michael’s book, with Elizabeth Dunn, “Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending”

The Mind Report - Laurie Santos and Katherine Milkman: Cognitive Science of New Year's Resolutions

From bloggingheads.tv, this episode of The Mind Report looks at the science behind why most people fail to maintain their New Year's Resolutions.

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Recorded: Jan 7 | Posted: Jan 11, 2014

Laurie Santos (Yale University) and Katherine Milkman (Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania)

• The cognitive science of New Year's resolutions   4:05
• When you should start a new diet   3:18
• Seeking your next "fresh-start moment"   3:39
• Temptation bundling, or exercising with "The Hunger Games"   5:58
• How to build good habits   5:02
• More tips on sticking to your resolutions   3:37

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Links

• Katherine's paper, "The Fresh Start Effect: Temporal Landmarks Motivate Aspirational Behavior"
• Katherine's paper on temptation bundling (PDF)
• StickK.com

The Mind Report | Jan 11, 2014 | Laurie Santos & Katherine Milkman

The Mind Report - Jonathan Phillips (Yale University) and Eric Mandelbaum (Baruch College)

On this week's episode of The Mind Report (bloggingheads.tv), Jonathan Phillips (left) and Eric Mandelbaum (right) discuss beliefs, truth, psychological health, racism, identity, implicit bias, the Colin McGinn case, and how Fox News "distracts" its viewers "to distort" the news, among other things.

If the video chooses to escape your viewing, please follow the title link to the bloggingheads.tv site to watch the video there (there embedding has been buggy lately).

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Jonathan Phillips (Yale University) and Eric Mandelbaum (Baruch College)

What is a belief, exactly? 6:36

Truth vs. our psychological health 4:34

How Fox News distracts to distort 3:47

Why it's so hard to change beliefs 9:20

The philosophical way to combat racism 15:53

When identity and action violently clash 11:04

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Recorded: Jul 12 Posted: Jul 14, 2013
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LINKS MENTIONED

• Eric's website
• Implicit association test
• Leiter Reports on the Colin McGinn case
• Tamar Gendler's paper, "On the epistemic costs of implicit bias"
• Sechrist, G. and Stengor, C., "Perceived Consensus Influences Intergroup Behavior and Stereotype Accessibility"
• Jonathan St B Evans and Bob Stanovich, "Dual-Process Theories of Higher Cognition: Advancing the Debate"
• Daniel Gilbert's website

The Mind Report - Jonathan Phillips and Joe Henrich - Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic (WEIRD) Research Subjects

In the current episode of The Mind Report (BloggingHeads.tv), Jonathan Phillips (Yale University) and Joe Henrich (University of British Columbia) discuss the issue with Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic (W.E.I.R.D.) research subjects (a commentary from Nature) as well as morality, tribal justice, and religion, among a host of other topics.

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Jonathan Phillips (Yale University) and Joe Henrich (University of British Columbia)

If you're watching this, you're probably WEIRD 5:30

Why psychologists shouldn't only test undergrads 8:14

Tribal justice 11:23

Do markets make us more or less moral? 3:36

Religion as a solution to the free rider problem 7:14

When divine punishment isn't forthcoming 6:04

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Recorded: May 30 Posted: Jun 2, 2013
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Links Mentioned

• Joe's WEIRD paper, with Steven J. Heine and Ara Norenzayan
• The Müller-Lyer illusion
• Joe's book, "Why Humans Cooperate"
• Jonathan's diavlog with Kiley Hamlin

The Mind Report | Jun 2, 2013 | Jonathan Phillips & Joe Henrich

The Mind Report - Joshua Knobe and Molly Crockett in Conversation on Morality

On this week's The Mind Report, Joshua Knobe (Yale University) speaks with Molly Crockett (University College London) on a variety of topics, including morality, oxytocin, and immorality, among other things.

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Joshua Knobe (Yale University) and Molly Crockett (University College London)

Drink this and become more vengeful! 6:58

Selfish acts with altruistic results 5:47

Oxytocin: The amoral molecule? 7:55

Imagining a pill that makes you more moral 6:14

Would taking a morality pill be immoral? 5:33

In praise of "I don't know" 1:39

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Recorded: May 1 Posted: May 4, 2013
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• Molly's paper, " Serotonin modulates striatal responses to fairness and retaliation in humans" (PDF)

THE MIND REPORT - Paul Bloom and Barry Schwartz

On this week's Mind Report from bloggingheads.tv, Paul Bloom, professor of psychology at Yale University, speaks with Barry Schwartz, the Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action in the psychology department at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Schwartz is author of The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (2005), Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing (2011), and The Battle for Human Nature: Science, Morality and Modern Life (1987), among other books. Bloom is the author of Descartes' Baby: How the Science of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human (2005) and How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like (2011), as well as other books.

Paul Bloom (Yale University) and Barry Schwartz (Swarthmore College)

Barry explains the paradox of choice 5:11

Why you should settle for "good enough" 9:23

What Medicare Part D gets wrong about psychology 8:09

Can the market correct for the surplus of choice? 6:16

When rules are not enough 10:00

Barry: Make college admissions into a lottery 9:57

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Recorded: Apr 23 Posted: Apr 27, 2013
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LINKS MENTIONED:

• Barry's book, "The Paradox of Choice"
• New Yorker cartoon on Brown vs. Yale
• Thaler and Sunstein's book, "Nudge"
• Barry's TED talk on wisdom
• Atul Gawande's book, "The Checklist Manifesto"
• Gawande on 80/20 in medicine
• Barry on college admissions

Neuroscience and Morality on The Mind Report - Jonathan Phillips (Yale University) and Liane Young (Boston College)

This week's episode of The Mind Report (from BloggingHeads.tv) features Jonathan Phillips (Yale University) and Liane Young (Boston College) discussing the neuroscience of morality and the mind.

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Jonathan Phillips (Yale University) and Liane Young (Boston College)

The neuroscience of pushing a fat man in front of a runaway trolley 10:15

Does being autistic make it harder to forgive others? 6:10

How the brain processes moral judgments 6:12

Moral judgment or emotional reaction? 6:55

Why taboos disgust us 7:38

Does morality even exist? 8:00

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