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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3 mo on HNFirst Follower: Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy
3 mo on HNJordan Peterson - Controversial Facts about IQ
3 mo on HNThe Most Common Cognitive Bias
3 mo on HNJonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives
3 mo on HNInvisibility Training for Motorcyclists
2 mo on HN"Understanding Burnout," Prof. Christina Maslach (U.C. Berkeley)
2 mo on HNThe surprising science of happiness | Dan Gilbert
2 mo on HN2017 Personality 18: Biology & Traits: Openness/Intelligence/Creativity I
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 HNJordan Peterson - Pareto Distributions
2 mo on HNJoscha: Computational Meta-Psychology
2 mo on HNHjernevask - Brainwashing (Eng Sub) Part 1 - The Gender Equality Paradox
2 mo on HNWhy is this number everywhere?
2 mo on HNWhat Would You Do? Bike Theft (White Guy, Black Guy, Pretty Girl)
2 mo on HNTwo Monkeys Were Paid Unequally: Excerpt from Frans de Waal's TED Talk
2 mo on HNJoe Rogan Experience #1419 - Daryl Davis
2 mo on HNStrange answers to the psychopath test | Jon Ronson | TED
2 mo on HNDon't Be a Sucker - 1947
2 mo on HNGenetics and Intelligence
2 mo on HNAre we in control of our decisions? | Dan Ariely
2 mo on HNRSA ANIMATE: The Secret Powers of Time
2 mo on HNWhy hierarchy creates a destructive force within the human psyche (by dr. Robert Sapolsky)
2 mo on HNTinder Experiment: 18 Yr Old Woman Tries Being A Man!!!
2 mo on HNThe Psychology of Human Misjudgement - Charlie Munger Full Speech
2 mo on HNYour Body Language May Shape Who You Are | Amy Cuddy | TED
2 mo on HNNeuroscience of Personality | Dario Nardi | Talks at Google
2 mo on HNJordan Peterson - Women in High Paying Jobs
2 mo on HNHow to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED
2 mo on HNMy descent into America's neo-Nazi movement & how I got out | Christian Picciolini | TEDxMileHigh
2 mo on HNThe riddle of experience vs. memory | Daniel Kahneman
2 mo on HNThe Future Of Reasoning
2 mo on HNThe Secret Reason We Eat Meat - Dr. Melanie Joy
2 mo on HNHovering a Helicopter is Hilariously Hard - Smarter Every Day 145
2 mo on HNJordan Peterson - IQ and The Job Market
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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?