Martin Seligman: Why is psychology good?
Martin Seligman talks about psychology -- as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. As it moves beyond a focus on disease, what can modern psychology help us to become? About the speaker: Martin Seligman founded the field of positive psychology in 2000, and has devoted his […]
Daniel Goleman: Why arent we all Good Samaritans?
Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, asks why we aren't more compassionate more of the time. About the speaker: Daniel Goleman brought the notion of "EI" to prominence as an alternative to more traditional measures of IQ with his 1995 mega-best-seller Emotional Intelligence. Since the publication of that book, conferences and academic institutes have sprung […]
Leonard Mlodinow: Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
Every aspect of our mental lives plays out in two versions: one conscious, which we are constantly aware of, and the other unconscious, which remains hidden from us. Over the past two decades researchers have developed remarkable new tools for probing the unconscious, or subliminal, workings of the mind. This explosion of research has led […]
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