Why We Procrastinate and Tips to Stop Doing It
I meant to write about this a few days ago. TED-Ed recently published a new lesson that tackles an issue that most of us have dealt with at one time or another. That issue is procrastination. Why You Procrastinate Even When It Feels Bad is a TED-Ed lesson that explains why people procrastinate. It does […]
A Visual Awareness Test
Last week in a presentation about search strategies and fake news awareness I shared the following video from Transport for London. My purpose in sharing the video was to make a point similar that in the video. When you’re not expecting to be on the look out for strange or unexpected things, you don’t always […]
Why We Feel Attached to Our Stuff – A TED-Ed Lesson
A few years ago I realized that somewhere along the line I started to collect coffee mugs. I never set out to collect coffee mugs, it just kind of happened. Now I have a few favorite mugs that I won’t part with even as I start packing my house (I sold it last month) and […]
Why We Make Irrational Decisions
The Psychology Behind Irrational Decisions is the title of a relatively new TED-Ed lesson that I watched over the weekend. The lesson focuses on the role of heuristics in our decision making processes. Of course, to understand the role of heuristics in making decisions students first need to understand heuristics. The lesson does a good […]
Why Do Price Tags End In .99? – A Psychology and Consumer Education Lesson
Take a stroll through any supermarket or browse your favorite online retailer and you’ll see prices ending in .99 more often than not. Why is that? What’s the psychology behind that kind of pricing? BrainStuff has the answers to those questions and more in a new video Why Do Price Tags End in .99? The […]
60 Second Adventures in Thought – An Open University Course
60 Second Adventures in Thought is a series of videos produced by The Open University in which six famous thought experiments are explained. The entire playlist is embedded below.