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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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3 mo on HNFirst Follower: Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy
Derek Sivers
3 HN recommender · 2016–2026
3 mo on HNJordan Peterson - Controversial Facts about IQ
Bite-sized Philosophy
3 HN recommender · 2017–2025
3 mo on HNThe Most Common Cognitive Bias
Veritasium
3 HN recommender · 2015–2023
3 mo on HNJonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives
TED
3 HN recommender · 2016–2018
3 mo on HNInvisibility Training for Motorcyclists
FortNine
4 HN recommender · 2019–2026
2 mo on HN"Understanding Burnout," Prof. Christina Maslach (U.C. Berkeley)
Thriving In Science
2 HN recommender · 2016–2019
2 mo on HNThe surprising science of happiness | Dan Gilbert
TED
2 HN recommender · 2021–2026
2 mo on HN2017 Personality 18: Biology & Traits: Openness/Intelligence/Creativity I
Jordan B Peterson
2 HN recommender · 2017–2025
2 mo on HNI took an IQ test to explain what's wrong with them
Veritasium
3 HN recommender · 2023–2025
2 mo on HNThe Uncanny Valley Is Wrong
This Place
2 HN recommender · 2021–2021
2 mo on HNWhy Gifted Kids Are Actually Special Needs
HealthyGamerGG
2 HN recommender · 2021–2025
2 mo on HNJordan Peterson - Pareto Distributions
Bite-sized Philosophy
2 HN recommender · 2017–2021
2 mo on HNJoscha: Computational Meta-Psychology
media.ccc.de
2 HN recommender · 2018–2020
2 mo on HNHjernevask - Brainwashing (Eng Sub) Part 1 - The Gender Equality Paradox
The Bookman
3 HN recommender · 2015–2018
2 mo on HNWhy is this number everywhere?
Veritasium
2 HN recommender · 2024–2026
2 mo on HNWhat Would You Do? Bike Theft (White Guy, Black Guy, Pretty Girl)
VladCantSleep
2 HN recommender · 2013–2018
2 mo on HNTwo Monkeys Were Paid Unequally: Excerpt from Frans de Waal's TED Talk
TED Blog Video
2 HN recommender · 2014–2024
2 mo on HNJoe Rogan Experience #1419 - Daryl Davis
PowerfulJRE
2 HN recommender · 2020–2020
2 mo on HNStrange answers to the psychopath test | Jon Ronson | TED
TED
2 HN recommender · 2021–2022
2 mo on HNDon't Be a Sucker - 1947
Weirdo Video
2 HN recommender · 2017–2025
2 mo on HNGenetics and Intelligence
Google TechTalks
2 HN recommender · 2015–2022
2 mo on HNAre we in control of our decisions? | Dan Ariely
TED
2 HN recommender · 2011–2017
2 mo on HNRSA ANIMATE: The Secret Powers of Time
Royal Society of Arts
2 HN recommender · 2010–2014
2 mo on HNWhy hierarchy creates a destructive force within the human psyche (by dr. Robert Sapolsky)
TheSymposionNights
2 HN recommender · 2015–2024
2 mo on HNTinder Experiment: 18 Yr Old Woman Tries Being A Man!!!
Alexander Grace
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
2 mo on HNThe Psychology of Human Misjudgement - Charlie Munger Full Speech
Vikas Ojha
2 HN recommender · 2023–2024
2 mo on HNYour Body Language May Shape Who You Are | Amy Cuddy | TED
TED
2 HN recommender · 2013–2021
2 mo on HNNeuroscience of Personality | Dario Nardi | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
1 HN recommend · 2012–2016
2 mo on HNJordan Peterson - Women in High Paying Jobs
Bite-sized Philosophy
1 HN recommend · 2017–2022
2 mo on HNHow to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED
TED
2 HN recommender · 2016–2020
2 mo on HNMy descent into America's neo-Nazi movement & how I got out | Christian Picciolini | TEDxMileHigh
TEDx Talks
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
2 mo on HNThe riddle of experience vs. memory | Daniel Kahneman
TED
2 HN recommender · 2010–2019
2 mo on HNThe Future Of Reasoning
Vsauce
2 HN recommender · 2024–2024
2 mo on HNThe Secret Reason We Eat Meat - Dr. Melanie Joy
Beyond Carnism
2 HN recommender · 2018–2023
2 mo on HNHovering a Helicopter is Hilariously Hard - Smarter Every Day 145
SmarterEveryDay
2 HN recommender · 2017–2021
2 mo on HNJordan Peterson - IQ and The Job Market
Bite-sized Philosophy
2 HN recommender · 2017–2022