Psychology of Single Questions, The
Nobel Prize winning professor of psychology Daniel Kahneman talks about the development of what he calls "the psychology of single questions." This was the notion that, "...you can capture an idea; you don't have to construct complicated scales," Dr...
Shades of Gray
Nobel Prize winning professor of psychology Daniel Kahneman talks about an early experience that shaped his view of humanity and fostered a lifelong awareness of the complexity of the human psyche.
Memory Contamination (Part One)
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus explains that, "...if you let the memory fade a little bit so it weakens, it then becomes more and more vulnerable to suggestion, to post-event contamination."
Intuition and Perception
Nobel Prize winning professor of psychology Daniel Kahneman talks about the similarities between intuition and perception. "Intuition is very much like perception," Dr. Kahneman says, "except that we can have intuitions about abstract ideas, about t...
Counterfactual Thinking
Nobel Prize winning professor of psychology Daniel Kahneman talks about counterfactual thinking and counterfactual emotions. Dr. Kahneman explains that this field within psychology looks at the ways in which people bring to mind alternatives to real...
False Memories (Part One)
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus talks about the controversy that surrounds the subject of false or repressed memories. "Some insurance companies have refused to insure psychotherapists if they do recovered memory therapy," Dr. ...
Traumatic Amnesia and Massive Repression (Part One)
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus describes her reaction at learning that a psychiatrist was showing videotapes of a woman who had repressed certain memories due to "traumatic amnesia," but was now supposedly recalling the detail...
Traumatic Amnesia and Massive Repression (Part Five)
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus continues her discussion of the traumatic amnesia case in which a mother was accused of having sexually abused her daughter years earlier. Dr. Loftus explains that the mother and daughter had a b...
Traumatic Amnesia and Massive Repression (Part Four)
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus continues her discussion of the traumatic amnesia case in which a mother was accused of having sexually abused her daughter years earlier. After her initial involvement in the case, Dr. Loftus ex...
Traumatic Amnesia and Massive Repression (Part Two)
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus continues her discussion of the traumatic amnesia case in which a mother was accused of having sexually abused her daughter years earlier. Dr. Loftus explains that she and her collaborator looked...