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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4 mo on HNRSA ANIMATE: Language as a Window into Human Nature
3 mo on HNMoral behavior in animals | Frans de Waal
4 mo on HNMike Mullane - Normalisation of deviance - IAFF - Part 1
4 mo on HNSid Meier's Psychology of Game Design
4 mo on HNEverything you think you know about addiction is wrong | Johann Hari | TED
4 mo on HNThe paradox of choice | Barry Schwartz | TED
4 mo on HNThe Power of belief -- mindset and success | Eduardo Briceno | TEDxManhattanBeach
3 mo on HNWar - Part Two: Anybody's Son Will Do (1 of 6)
3 mo on HNSocial Physics: How Good Ideas Spread | Sandy Pentland | Talks at Google
3 mo on HNLecture: Biblical Series I: Introduction to the Idea of God
3 mo on HNHow We’re Fooled By Statistics
3 mo on HNDerren Brown - The System (Full)
3 mo on HNTerence Mckenna - Culture is your operating system
3 mo on HNWhy our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents' | James Flynn
3 mo on HNA visual guide to Bayesian thinking
3 mo on HNThinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | Talks at Google
3 mo on HNRobert Sapolsky: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
3 mo on HNSo... the minute hand shows progression — apparently we think of time in wildly different ways
3 mo on HNSimon Sinek: Why Leaders Eat Last
3 mo on HNHow to recover from depression
3 mo on HNDICKS: Do you need to be one to be a successful leader?
3 mo on HN2017 Personality 01: Introduction
3 mo on HNLoneliness
3 mo on HNThe puzzle of motivation | Dan Pink | TED
3 mo on HNRSA ANIMATE: Smile or Die
3 mo on HNselective attention test
3 mo on HNBrené Brown on Empathy
3 mo on HNThe Trolley Problem in Real Life
3 mo on HNMeaningful Play: Getting Gamification Right
3 mo on HNForget big change, start with a tiny habit: BJ Fogg at TEDxFremont
3 mo on HNMaking Badass Developers - Kathy Sierra (Serious Pony) keynote
3 mo on HNHow to Get Good at Small Talk, and Even Enjoy It
3 mo on HNThe psychology of evil | Philip Zimbardo
3 mo on HNHow to Achieve Your Most Ambitious Goals | Stephen Duneier | TEDxTucson
3 mo on HNCausal understanding of water displacement by a crow
3 mo on HNWhy Life Seems to Speed Up as We Age
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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?