Popular behavioural economist Dan Ariely explains how people can be dishonest and honest at the same time.

Perspective is Everything

- Perspective is essential to happiness, says Rory Sutherland. He gives examples of applied perspective and argues that the element of choice is what makes a situation more tolerable. Psychological factors should be added to mechanistic ideas in cost-benefit analyses. Things like train arrival clocks and traffic light timers have improved lives because they address human anxieties.

People believe that a company that only sells one type of product is better than a company that sells a wide array of products, which means “Google is as much a psychological success as it is a financial one.” Economics and advertising often fail to understand that what something is, has value, he asserts. An interesting intellectual TEDxAthens Talk.

A leading neuropsychiatrist describes how our body and brains function in modern society.

The discouraging economics and psychology of online dating sites, explained.

In a funny and revealing short lecture, behavioural economist Dan Ariely talks about what motivates and what doesn’t motivate people in the workplace.

Debate on the pursuit of happiness: internal or external? Pleasure or satisfaction? Experts in diverse fields discuss issues.

Drive and motivation – what makes people work, and work better? Portion of an RSA lecture, remixed with hand-drawn animation.

Nobel laureate Dr. John Nash on economic theory.

Left Brain, Right Brain: Human nature and political values

Trends in economics and politics including consumerism and changes in democracy, and how research into psychology, social networks and behavioural economics is relevant.

Dan Ariely explains how fake sunglasses led to cheating in an economic game.