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Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious

The Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development gives a talk on intuition. Decisions and heuristics, ecological rationality and behavioral economics, and related concepts. Some Q&A.

Jonah Lehrer: Inside My Mind

Decisions, cognitive neuroscience and behavioural economics, remixed for the general public. An interview with the author of the book Proust was a Neuroscientist and the blog Frontal Cortex at ScienceBlogs, about his latest book How We Decide.

This Time With Feeling

What is the difference between emotion and feeling? How emotions influence decisions and cognitive functioning. Neuroscientist Damasio, in an interview by David Brooks, reveals the history of neuroscience divorced from the neurobiology of emotion, and details experiments and case studies from his distinguished career. (Although you can watch the embed here, I highly recommend viewing on FORA’s enhanced player instead.)

Nobelist Daniel Kahneman on Behavioral Economics

The Georgetown 2009 graduation ceremony included this short lecture by psychologist and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman on irrationality and how to promote rational decisions when “coherence is unachievable.” The FORA.tv enhanced player presentation includes an indexed transcript, more info and a bio. Here’s another, longer, 2003 lecture on decision analysis and another on “Deal or No Deal” decisions given at Princeton University in 2008.

Adolescent Brain Development

A forensic examiner talks about decision making and developing brains in youth, for an audience of youth advocates. See also: Brain Science as a Means of Understanding Delinquency and Substance Abuse in Youth,  The Teen Brain, and Teen Brain, an award-winning documentary on neuroethics and the juvenile justice system.

title Decision Making and Rationality
description The Nobel laureate speaking on decision making and prospect theory.
producer Princeton University
featuring Daniel Kahneman
format mp4
date 16/04/08
length 01:04:50
link http://www.princeton.edu/~kahneman/multimedia.htm
direct video link http://tr.im/2qah

Tags: brain video lecture psychology economics prospect_theory decision cognitive neuroeconomics Nobel

The Neurocritic explains how prospect theory is the basis of the game show Deal or No Deal.

title The Paradox of Choice
description “Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central belief of western societies: that freedom of choice leads to personal happiness. In Schwartz’s estimation, all that choice is making us miserable. We set unreasonably high expectations, question our choices before we even make them, and blame our failures entirely on ourselves. His relatable examples, from consumer products (jeans, TVs, salad dressings) to lifestyle choices (where to live, what job to take, whom and when to marry), underscore this central point: Too many choices undermine happiness.”
producer TED Talks
featuring Barry Schwartz
format Flash, mp3, mp4

date **/07/05

length 00:19:48
link http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice.html

Tags: brain psychology decision