SciShow
The Biggest Psychology News Stories of 2016
From Pokémon, to fMRI, to the relationship between masculine norms and mental health, 2016 left us with some interesting psych news to ponder.
SciShow
Are You Really Addicted to Your Phone?
Are millennials addicted to their phones? Is that even a thing that can happen?!
SciShow
How to Get Things Done by NOT Doing Them | Compilation
We’ve all pulled an all-nighter studying for an exam or skipped lunch to meet a deadline, but you may be productive in all of life if you give yourself time to take breaks. And take a breath. Chapters staff burn-out 1:41 Maslach Burnout...
SciShow
The Biggest Psychology News Stories of 2016
From Pokémon, to fMRI, to the relationship between masculine norms and mental health, 2016 left us with some interesting psych news to ponder.
SciShow
Nobels 2016 How Your Cells Stave Off Starvation
It’s Nobel Prize week 2016, which means it’s basically science Christmas!
SciShow
What Slot Machines Can Tell Us About Our Brains
The rise of lootboxes in video games has led to numerous investigations seeking to establish just how close to gambling they are. While the science behind lootboxes is only just beginning to come in, we do know a lot about how other...
TED Talks
Tom Chatfield: 7 ways games reward the brain
We're bringing gameplay into more aspects of our lives, spending countless hours -- and real money -- exploring virtual worlds for imaginary treasures. Why? As Tom Chatfield shows, games are perfectly tuned to dole out rewards that...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How to get better at video games, according to babies | Brian Christian
In 2013, a group of researchers wanted to create an AI system that could beat every Atari game. They developed a system called Deep Q Networks (DQN) and less than two years later, it was superhuman. But there was one notable exception....
Crash Course
Procrastination: Crash Course Study Skills
You're on YouTube right now, but you should probably be studying or writing that research paper. But as long as you're here, we're going to help you figure out how to get the better of your desire to procrastinate in the future. Just...
Mister Simplify
The Expectancy Theory of Motivation by Vroom - Simplest Explanation Ever
The Expectancy Theory of Motivation by Victor Vroom - The Simplest explanation ever Victor Vroom's Expectancy theory of motivation explores a side of human psychology that considers the type of reward provided as impetus to work harder...
Curated Video
What is the SCARF Model?
Social behaviors – like those we see in and around our projects – are driven by two urges: to minimize perceived threat, and to maximize potential reward. But what are the sources of threat and reward in the social domain? That is the...
Curated Video
Are You on Track with Your Project Management Career?
Are you on track with your Project Management career? It's a question we ask ourselves a lot - particularly when we have a gnawing feeling the answer is 'no'. So, in this video, I'll show you a model that will help you understand what's...
Curated Video
The History of Innovation: A Recipe for Breakthroughs
If you look at the history of innovation, you'll see one proven recipe for breakthroughs: Take a small, intensely focused team and impose an unreasonable time frame on it.' This quote from the business leader, Alan Naumann, reminds us of...
ShortCutsTv
Procrastination 3: Facing the Fear
A major cause of procrastination is fear: Of failure. Of criticism. Of not reaching the high standards we’ve set for ourselves. But while it’s one thing to admit this, it’s another to understand how to overcome it. And this is where the...
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Procrastination 2: Prevention Strategies
If procrastination is a problem, how do we prevent it? While the conventional advice is to focus on the future rewards of studying, this doesn’t actually solve the pressing problem of present procrastination. This film looks at...
Curated Video
What is Transactional Leadership?
Transactional Leadership is the everyday leadership between a manager and colleague, officer and soldier, or any leader and their followers. It is the process of passing on a request or requirement and winning a commitment to meet it.
Curated Video
Rensis Likert and High Producing Managers - Process Models of Motivation
Rensis Likert studied different systems of management and the things that 'high-producing managers' do to achieve the results they get. His conclusions build a helpful model of motivation and how to get the best from the people who work...
Curated Video
Amitai Etzioni: How Organizations Secure Compliance
How do organizations elicit compliance from their members? Amitai Etzioni addressed this question, concluding that there are three types of organization, each wielding a different sort of power.
Curated Video
Porter & Lawler: Expectancy Theory on Steroids
Victor Vroom’s Expectancy Theory of motivation is extremely successful. But Lyman Porter and Edward Lawler found that predict or explain everything about the relationships among the effort we put in, the performance we achieve, and the...
Science Buddies
Create a Reinforcement Learning Agent That Can Solve Any Maze
Explore how well a computer can learn to solve a maze by changing the reward and penalty system in this beginner machine learning project.
Learning Mole
Credit Card v Debit Card
Jamal's aunt's cards get into a boxing match but Jamal has some questions. What is the difference between credit and debit cards?
ShortCutsTv
The Power of Habits
There’s lots of advice around about the study habits students should be developing to help them succeed. But that still leaves a big question. How do they develop the good habits that are going to get them the best grades? In a series of...
Curated Video
Getting Personal
Psychologist Carol Dweck (Stanford) describes her motivations to write her bestselling popular book Mindset, along with why she deliberately opted to take a more personal approach.