Brainwaves Video Anthology
Edward Deci - Teachers Make a Difference - George Taylor
Edward L. Deci is professor of psychology and Gowen Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Rochester, where he is a member of the Human Motivation Program in the Department of Psychology. He holds a Ph.D. in psychology...
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Richard Weissbourd - Teachers Make a Difference
Richard Weissbourd is currently a senior lecturer in education at HGSE and at the Kennedy School of Government. He is also faculty director of the Human Development and Psychology master's program. His work focuses on vulnerability and...
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Richard Weissbourd - Love Lessons
Richard Weissbourd is currently a senior lecturer in education at HGSE and at the Kennedy School of Government. He is also faculty director of the Human Development and Psychology master's program. His work focuses on vulnerability and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Howard Stevenson - Teachers Make a Difference - Harriett Jeglum
Dr. Howard Stevenson is the Constance Clayton Professor of Urban Education, Professor of Africana Studies, and former Chair of the Applied Psychology and Human Development Division in the Graduate School of Education at the University of...
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Howard Stevenson - The Power of Stories
Dr. Howard Stevenson is the Constance Clayton Professor of Urban Education, Professor of Africana Studies, and former Chair of the Applied Psychology and Human Development Division in the Graduate School of Education at the University of...
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Howard Stevenson - Promoting Racial Literacy in Schools
Dr. Howard Stevenson is the Constance Clayton Professor of Urban Education, Professor of Africana Studies, and former Chair of the Applied Psychology and Human Development Division in the Graduate School of Education at the University of...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Charlton McIlwain - Teachers Make a Difference - George Henderson
Dr. McIlwain has been at NYU since 2001. As Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, his scholarly work focuses on the intersections of race, digital media,...
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Charlton McIlwain - 'The Ballad of the Landlord' by Langston Hughes
Dr. McIlwain has been at NYU since 2001. As Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, his scholarly work focuses on the intersections of race, digital media,...
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Pandemic Perspectives: Beliefs and Values
MITIGATING THE MENACE: Professor Dunn talks about how drastic and systemic the impact of the COVID-1 pandemic was, how democracy does not necessarily give any guarantee for collective security and how it is not certain that any kind of...
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Chess, Sports and Gender, Part 2
As both a highly regulated sport and informal pastime actively engaged in by both men and women, chess naturally provides an array of highly revealing insights on our current attitudes regarding gender differences through those who have...
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The Need To Belong
Roy Baumeister, University of Queensland, describes how, for the longest time social psychologists only paid lip service to the social world, and that his groundbreaking work The Need To Belong was motivated by an awareness that much of...
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Top Brain, Bottom Brain
Psychologist Stephen Kosslyn describes how he and his colleagues were motivated to apply our contemporary neuroscientific understanding detailing the different functions produced by the top of the brain and the bottom of the brain to a...
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Herbert Kelman - Conflict Resolution
HERBERT C. KELMAN is the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Emeritus, at Harvard University and was (from 1993 to 2003) Director of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution at Harvard's Weatherhead...
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Walter Mischel - The Marshmallow Test
Walter Mischel has research interests in personality structure, process, and development, and in self-regulation (aka willpower). His professional honors and awards include the following: National Academy of Sciences (elected 2004);...
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Brian R. Little - Me, Myself and Us: The Science of Personality and the Art of Well-Being
Brian R. Little is a pioneer in the study of human personality and well being Professor Little has been a major innovator in the field of personality assessment and motivation and is the 2020 winner of the Henry A. Murray Award for...
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Daniel Schacter - Teachers Make a Difference
Daniel L. Schacter is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. Schacter received his B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1974 and received his PhD from the University of Toronto...
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Robert J. Sternberg - Successful Intelligence
Robert J. Sternberg was most recently President and Professor of Psychology and Education at the University of Wyoming. Before that, he was Provost, Senior Vice President, Regents Professor of Psychology and Education, and George Kaiser...
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Scott Plous - What is Action Teaching
Andrés Richner is the Director of Technology at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, where he spearheads the development of an online learning platform to support RULER, the Center’s approach to social emotional learning and...
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What is Psychodynamic Therapy?
Alfred Adler felt inferior growing up due to persistent illness and rejection. However, he transformed his inferiorities into his greatest strengths and developed an entirely new model of mental health treatment as a result. Join Micah...
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Andrés A. Richner - Technology: Taking Control of Your Own Story
Andrés Richner is the Director of Technology at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, where he spearheads the development of an online learning platform to support RULER, the Center’s approach to social emotional learning and...
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The 5 Needs That Motivate You And How You Get Stuck
Ever felt like something was holding you back or that you didn't know why you were doing what you're doing? Here’s why. Abraham Maslow developed a hierarchy of needs 1943 paper “A Theory of Human Motivation.” He described five levels of...
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Douglas Mennin - Chronic Anxiety & Mood Disorders
Whether it is the rising sense of dread as a heart beats furiously and unexpectedly, the vivid memory of a painful event that occurred long ago but is not easily forgotten, or the sharp craving of a substance that seems so certain to...
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Robert Pianta - Teacher-Student Interactions
Robert Pianta, Ph.D., is the Dean of the Curry School of Education, Novartis US Foundation Professor of Education, and Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. He is also Chairman of the Jefferson Education Accelerator...
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Why Is It A Bad Idea To Stay In Bed For Too Long?
The side effects of staying in bed all day include the development of bedsores and body aches, especially in the lower back. Lying in bed all day is also associated with an increased risk of stress and depression, and some other...