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The human brain is the most complex object we've discovered in the universe, and every day much of its neural circuitry is taken up with the tens of thousands of decisions we need to make. "How Do I Decide?" is a journey through the unseen world of decisions, and how they get made. We start with a simple one: choosing a flavour of frozen yoghurt, and learn that every decision we make is born of a "winner takes all" competition between rival neural...
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How can we best use the power of empathy when dealing with emotions? Empathy is both a skill and an attitude. Psychologists Eve Ash and Peter Quarry discuss the importance of empathy, for our work environment and our personal well-being in this exciting video. Topics featured in the program include customer service; team members, leaders, managers, and supervisors; and am I an empathic person?
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More and more Americans are living alone, according to sociologist Eric Klinenberg's new book, "Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone." NewsHour correspondent Ray Suarez and Klinenberg discuss the emerging demographic, so-called "singletons," and what he calls the "biggest unnamed social change of the last 50 years." Origina?
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Body language affects how others see us - and it may also change how we see ourselves. In this TEDTalk, social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how "power posing" - standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don't feel confident - can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain, and might even have an impact on our chances for success.
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Is there a universal characteristic that defines beauty? Has the human gene pool been altered over the millennia by a process of selection based on this characteristic? In this program, experts from Harvard, Yale, and the University of California explore facial evolution, the brain's specialized ability to recognize familiar faces, the ways in which expressions are used to actively and passively communicate, the intricacies of craniofacial surgery,...
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Can a person suppress recollections of sexual abuse during childhood, so completely that the memory can be recovered only through therapy? Or are "retrieved memories" the result of overzealous therapists planting ideas in the already vulnerable minds of abuse victims? This program searches for the answer to this important - but very baffling - question.
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Lying is part of human nature; it is believed that babies as young as six months old will fake a cry to get their mother's attention. This ABC News report looks at lying and the differences between the lies men and women tell. Women lie about their age or weight, and men lie about their height and how successful they are.
10) 14 Up: Japan
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Expanding on the Up series produced in Great Britain, which starts with a group of seven-year-olds and revisits them every seven years, the Up: Japan chronicle focuses on 13 youth living in different parts of Japan. In this program, which captures the subjects at age 14, they are asked to talk about their lives, families, and future with the same honesty and frankness displayed in the original British production. Counteracting the percieved homogeneity...
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In a culture where being social and outgoing are highly prized, it can be difficult - even shameful - to be an introvert. But as Susan Cain argues in this passionate TEDTalk, the quiet and contemplative bring extraordinary talents and abilities to the world and should be encouraged and celebrated.
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People who do well in business and sport often have a lot in common - they have successful thinking habits. This useful video helps define some of these habits and focuses on uncovering your locks; identifying your scripts; voicing the goals; using time effectively; having chutzpah, confidence, stamina and persistence; and doing it now!
13) 21 Up: U.K
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Hardly the last or least of the Up episodes, this is nevertheless the final one to include all fourteen of the series' original subjects. Charles, ending his participation, has assumed a long-haired look standard for youthful whites of the 1970s, while Symon, impressive in his afro and mustache, idolizes Muhammad Ali. Jackie and Lynn are both married. Sue is single and employed at a travel agency, but a more stark contrast to working-class matrimony...
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This documentary focuses on extraordinary stories of reincarnation. Research has revealed that the strongest evidence for reincarnation comes from interviewing children from ages three to five. The program introduces two normal children-one in England, one in India-who can vividly remember aspects of their previous lives. Their accounts have been investigated, and the details have checked out. These remarkable findings are among many such cases of...
15) The Social Brain
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By nature, humans are a social species. Our brains are wired from birth with programs that were crucial to our distant ancestors. Infants come equipped with a basic repertoire of social skills. And yet, as history has shown, there is a dark side to the human brain. The evidence is overwhelming that throughout our history as a species, relations between individuals and societies have been destructive as well as positive. As series host Roger Bingham...
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In Joanna Lipper's riveting, award-winning documentary about imagination and creativity in childhood, children between the ages of 5 and 12 tell their life stories with humor, sadness, and honesty. Factors including divorce, adoption, religion, immigration, cultural legacy, and death in the family are addressed as these children, who come from diverse backgrounds, internalize the world around them and then share that vision with vivid imagination...
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The human body can function without being conscious - it does so when we're anesthetized or asleep. Where does consciousness go when we're not awake? In this program, James Burke explores the reticular formation, a part of the brain involved in regulating states of consciousness, touching on possible functions of dreaming and sleep as ways to integrate the day's experiences into our internal model of the world. Burke also explains what goes on in...
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In a highly competitive society, what harm could possibly come from providing self-esteem classes at school? In this program, ABC News anchors Diane Sawyer and Sam Donaldson and correspondent John Stossel find out as they probe the downside of the self-esteem movement. In an absence of statistics confirming any salutary effects from such classes, research indicates that intensive praise can undercut students' desire to accept greater scholastic challenges....
19) 21 Up: Japan
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Modeled on the Up series produced in the United Kingdom, which begins with a group of seven-year-olds and revisits them every seven years, the Up: Japan chronicle focuses on 13 youth living in different parts of Japan. In this program, which rejoins the participants at age 21, they are asked to talk about their lives, families, and future with the same honesty and frankness displayed in the original British production. Contradicting the perceived...
20) 14 Up in America
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The second installment of the U.S. version of the classic British documentary series, this film updates viewers on the children featured in Age 7 in America. It follows the young subjects seven years later as they come to terms with adolescence, facing new challenges relating to school, violence, financial status, and family and divorce. In Chicago, LeRoy and Kennisha still fear violence and gangs, although Kennisha's family has moved out of the housing...