We all experience it: that desire to do something wrong just for the sake of it. Whether it's walking on manicured grass or sticking your finger in a friend's ice cream, psychologist Paul Bloom invites us to see the clever, creative and...

This film opens with Milgram's famous obedience experiments and the part they played in producing much stricter ethical guidelines for the protection of participants. The second part of the film looks at an on-going research project to...

This film looks at the nature and significance of ethical guidelines to the research process, using examples drawn from the work of Milgram, Watson and Sharif.

This film uses the tragic example of 'Genie', who was kept in solitary confinement from infancy until she was 13, to illustrate the use of case studies in psychology: why they are used, how they are used, what they can offer researchers,...

What does it mean to do something good or bad? How do we know what's good or bad? How do we even know that this is a reasonable question to ask? Psychologists have been studying morality for a long time, examining how our sense of...

The controversies surrounding abortion involve a clash between two fundamental rights: the right of the unborn child, or foetus, and the rights of the mother. This film begins with the storm created by leading case of Roe vs Wade and...

In natural experiments circumstances present researchers with the perfect opportunity to test the effect of one variable on another in ways that just couldn't be done in a laboratory. This film looks at some natural experiments in...

SciShow News explains the science behind a psychological experiment performed on about seven hundred thousand Facebook users, although none of them knew that they were participating.

In the past, some experiments were run in scary and unethical ways. From using children to unknowing subjects, these five experiments left people affected for the rest of their lives.

Some research questions in psychology involve seeing how people actually behave in real life situations. This is called naturalistic observation. Using psychological studies, this film illustrates different techniques of naturalistic...

A professional Code of Conduct is more than a set of rules, it's a foundation for ethical behavior, respectful interactions, and a trustworthy workplace culture. It outlines what’s expected from everyone in the organization, guiding...

This film begins by looking at how animals were used in psychological research, looking particularly at Harlow's experiments isolating rhesus monkeys in what he himself described as 'the pit of despair'. It then looks at the regulation...

While ethics is concerned with the conduct of research, the issue of socially sensitive research is concerned with the social consequences of research. Might it be unintentionally harmful to some individuals or groups? This film begins...

What if your attachment to being a "good" person is holding you back from actually becoming a better person? In this accessible talk, social psychologist Dolly Chugh explains the puzzling psychology of ethical behavior -- like why it's...

Who do you turn to when panic strikes in the middle of the night — and can AI help? Psychologist Alison Darcy shares the vision behind Woebot, a mental health chatbot designed to support people in tough moments, especially when no one...

Don Ambrose is a Professor of Graduate Education at Rider University in NJ, editor of the refereed journal "Roeper Review", past chair of the Conceptual Foundations Division of the National Association for Gifted Children. Initiates and...

Don Ambrose is a Professor of Graduate Education at Rider University in NJ, editor of the refereed journal "Roeper Review", past chair of the Conceptual Foundations Division of the National Association for Gifted Children. Initiates and...

Don Ambrose is a Professor of Graduate Education at Rider University in NJ, editor of the refereed journal "Roeper Review", past chair of the Conceptual Foundations Division of the National Association for Gifted Children. Initiates and...

This video introduces you to the concept of Classical Conditioning (Pavlovian Conditioning), a key learning theory discovered accidentally by Ivan Pavlov. We also discuss the ethically dubious experiment conducted by Watson and Raynor...

According to the Gnostics, we have three brains - or three intelligence centres.



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