In the last thirty years there’s been a revolution in scientific understanding of babies and young children, a revolution that’s also transformed understanding of human nature itself. In this talk, Alison Gopnik outlines some of the new discoveries and...
In the last thirty years there’s been a revolution in scientific understanding of babies and young children, a revolution that’s also transformed understanding of human nature itself. In this talk, Alison Gopnik outlines some of the new discoveries and...
Could kindess be an evolutionary advantage? Dacher Keltner begins with Charles Darwin, and continues through the latest neuroscience research on the pleasures of giving, revealing that kindness is contagious! He also shares real-life, practical and scientifically...
Over the past few years, the psychologist Laurie Santos has examined the roots of human irrationality by studying the way our primate relatives make decisions. Her experiments in “monkeynomics” have shown that monkeys make some of the same silly financial...
Why do you do what you do? Why get up in the morning…what drives you, motivates you, makes you feel alive? Or have you lost that sense of living a meaningful life? What can you do to rekindle the fires of a passionate existence?
