But how do we do it? Here, Rebecca Saxe shares fascinating lab work that uncovers how the brain thinks about other peoples’ thoughts - and judges their actions. Sensing the motives and feelings of others is a natural talent for humans. This new insight has profound implications for economics, public policy - and our own self-awareness. Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics, Daniel Kahneman, reveals how our “experiencing selves” and our “remembering selves” perceive happiness differently. “Life comes at us very quickly, and what we need to do is take that amorphous flow of experience and somehow extract meaning from it.” In this funny, enlightening talk, educational psychologist Peter Doolittle details the importance - and limitations - of your “working memory,” that part of the brain that allows us to make sense of what’s happening right now. Here, Pinker talks about his thesis, and why some people found it incredibly upsetting. Steven Pinker’s book The Blank Slate argues that all humans are born with some innate traits. Illustrated and exemplified by illusions, Seth makes a convincing case for a new way of looking at the conscious experience.īehavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counter-intuitive (and sometimes shocking) research findings to show how we’re not as rational as we think when we make decisions. Neuroscientist Anil Seth takes on perhaps the biggest question of all in human behavior research – what is consciousness? The theory he proposes is radical: that our brains hallucinate our reality all the time. Her work has helped generate a better understanding of the weaknesses of eyewitness testimony, as well as how – and why – we remember some things better than others. Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus studies memory – not from the perspective of forgetting, but from the perspective of falsely remembering. We hope you will enjoy these 10 talks from some of the innovators and deep thinkers in the field of human behavior. We have gathered some of the best talks about human behavior below, covering everything from memory and consciousness, to decision-making and the very nature of human behavior. TED Talks are a great way for the world’s most brilliant people to communicate anything from big ideas to minute details in a format that is both easy and entertaining.
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