Psychology & human behavior Videos Recommended on Hacker News (146)
Psychology & human behavior is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 146 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2008 and 2026 — 487 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Psychology: cognitive biases, social psychology, decision making, motivation, habits, personality, experiments, happiness, relationships, behavioral science, persuasion.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on 1. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology: “Best course I've ever done.” — an HN commenter, 2017.
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10 mo on HNRSA ANIMATE: Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
9 mo on HNWhy Being Delusional is a Superpower
8 mo on HNThe 7 Habits of Highly Miserable People
5 mo on HNThe Expert Myth
6 mo on HNCan You Watch This Without Getting Angry?
6 mo on HNThe Biggest Myth In Education
6 mo on HNTraffic Has a Perfect Solution. Humans Are the Problem.
3 mo on HNHow We’re Fooled By Statistics
3 mo on HNSo... the minute hand shows progression — apparently we think of time in wildly different ways
3 mo on HNLoneliness
3 mo on HNRSA ANIMATE: Smile or Die
3 mo on HNBrené Brown on Empathy
3 mo on HNWhy Life Seems to Speed Up as We Age
3 mo on HNFirst Follower: Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy
3 mo on HNThe Most Common Cognitive Bias
3 mo on HNInvisibility Training for Motorcyclists
2 mo on HNI took an IQ test to explain what's wrong with them
2 mo on HNThe Uncanny Valley Is Wrong
2 mo on HNWhy Gifted Kids Are Actually Special Needs
2 mo on HNWhy is this number everywhere?
2 mo on HNTwo Monkeys Were Paid Unequally: Excerpt from Frans de Waal's TED Talk
2 mo on HNRSA ANIMATE: The Secret Powers of Time
2 mo on HNThe Future Of Reasoning
2 mo on HNTesting if 60 minutes of silence drives you crazy
2 mo on HNThe Skinner Box - How Games Condition People to Play More - Extra Credits
2 mo on HNWhy Don't You Want To Do Anything After Binging 4 Hours of YouTube Videos...
2 mo on HNWhy You Will Marry the Wrong Person
1 mo on HNRSA ANIMATE: The Truth About Dishonesty
1 mo on HNSurvivor Bias
1 mo on HNCrowd Wisdom Principles
1 mo on HNThe Hidden Rules of Conversation
1 mo on HNThe Science of Thinking
1 mo on HNYou Need to Be Bored. Here's Why.
1 mo on HNBonhoeffer‘s Theory of Stupidity
1 mo on HNHow to Stop a Riot
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Mentioned in HN threads about psychology & human behavior, though never formally recommended:
Capuchin monkey fairness experiment · THE CORPORATION [11/23] Basic Training · What kids really do on Musical.ly · Isn't the purpose of work just making money? · Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce | Malcolm Gladwell · Joshua Bell's 'Stop and Hear the Music' metro experiment | The Washington Post · This is how hackers hack you using simple social engineering · Star Trek TNG Peak Performance: It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. Full Scene · Juvenoia · How to stop screwing yourself over | Mel Robbins | TEDxSF · 'The most profound experience I can imagine': Emotional William Shatner recounts space trip · Hazard perception test 2026: official DVSA guide · The Woman Who Could Not Forget - Jill Price · Homer Simpson on Jealousy and Envy · How to steal a bike in NYC · living with lag - an oculus rift experiment · A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work.m4v · Magnus Carlsen's Mind-Blowing Memory! World Chess Champion tested · The surprising decline in violence | Steven Pinker · Did People Used To Look Older?