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Psychology & human behavior Videos Recommended on Hacker News (166)
Psychology & human behavior is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 166 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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4 mo on HNRSA ANIMATE: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Royal Society of Arts
2 HN recommender · 2011–2022
3 mo on HNMoral behavior in animals | Frans de Waal
TED
3 HN recommender · 2019–2024
4 mo on HNMike Mullane - Normalisation of deviance - IAFF - Part 1
Stuart Walker
4 HN recommender · 2018–2022
4 mo on HNSid Meier's Psychology of Game Design
GDC Festival of Gaming
4 HN recommender · 2016–2019
4 mo on HNEverything you think you know about addiction is wrong | Johann Hari | TED
TED
5 HN recommender · 2017–2025
4 mo on HNThe paradox of choice | Barry Schwartz | TED
TED
4 HN recommender · 2010–2022
4 mo on HNThe Power of belief -- mindset and success | Eduardo Briceno | TEDxManhattanBeach
TEDx Talks
3 HN recommender · 2014–2020
3 mo on HNWar - Part Two: Anybody's Son Will Do (1 of 6)
Ingsoc75
3 HN recommender · 2013–2017
3 mo on HNSocial Physics: How Good Ideas Spread | Sandy Pentland | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
3 HN recommender · 2015–2022
3 mo on HNLecture: Biblical Series I: Introduction to the Idea of God
Jordan B Peterson
3 HN recommender · 2018–2024
3 mo on HNHow We’re Fooled By Statistics
Veritasium
3 HN recommender · 2014–2025
3 mo on HNDerren Brown - The System (Full)
ScepticaTV
3 HN recommender · 2013–2017
3 mo on HNTerence Mckenna - Culture is your operating system
Dani Dögenigt
1 HN recommend · 2009–2023
3 mo on HNWhy our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents' | James Flynn
TED
3 HN recommender · 2020–2024
3 mo on HNA visual guide to Bayesian thinking
Julia Galef
3 HN recommender · 2017–2021
3 mo on HNThinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
2 HN recommender · 2011–2023
3 mo on HNRobert Sapolsky: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Stanford Iranian Studies Program
3 HN recommender · 2020–2026
3 mo on HNSo... the minute hand shows progression — apparently we think of time in wildly different ways
Technology Connextras
3 HN recommender · 2022–2026
3 mo on HNSimon Sinek: Why Leaders Eat Last
99U
3 HN recommender · 2014–2017
3 mo on HNHow to recover from depression
Psychlopaedia.org
3 HN recommender · 2021–2023
3 mo on HNDICKS: Do you need to be one to be a successful leader?
Max Joseph
3 HN recommender · 2018–2020
3 mo on HN2017 Personality 01: Introduction
Jordan B Peterson
3 HN recommender · 2019–2023
3 mo on HNLoneliness
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
4 HN recommender · 2019–2022
3 mo on HNThe puzzle of motivation | Dan Pink | TED
TED
3 HN recommender · 2010–2026
3 mo on HNRSA ANIMATE: Smile or Die
Royal Society of Arts
3 HN recommender · 2011–2022
3 mo on HNselective attention test
Daniel Simons
3 HN recommender · 2011–2025
3 mo on HNBrené Brown on Empathy
Royal Society of Arts
3 HN recommender · 2013–2020
3 mo on HNThe Trolley Problem in Real Life
Vsauce
3 HN recommender · 2021–2026
3 mo on HNMeaningful Play: Getting Gamification Right
Google TechTalks
3 HN recommender · 2012–2014
3 mo on HNForget big change, start with a tiny habit: BJ Fogg at TEDxFremont
TEDx Talks
3 HN recommender · 2014–2017
3 mo on HNMaking Badass Developers - Kathy Sierra (Serious Pony) keynote
O'Reilly
3 HN recommender · 2017–2017
3 mo on HNHow to Get Good at Small Talk, and Even Enjoy It
Harvard Business Review
2 HN recommender · 2024–2026
3 mo on HNThe psychology of evil | Philip Zimbardo
TED
2 HN recommender · 2012–2024
3 mo on HNHow to Achieve Your Most Ambitious Goals | Stephen Duneier | TEDxTucson
TEDx Talks
3 HN recommender · 2018–2023
3 mo on HNCausal understanding of water displacement by a crow
PLOS Media
3 HN recommender · 2015–2023
3 mo on HNWhy Life Seems to Speed Up as We Age
Veritasium
4 HN recommender · 2020–2024