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‘Psychology’ Category
August 15th, 2010
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Past, Present, and Promise
This introduction presents psychology as a science at the crossroads of many fields of knowledge, from philosophy and anthropology to biochemistry and artificial intelligence. With Dr. Mahzarin Banaji of Harvard University and Dr. Emanuel Donchin of the University of Illinois.
Killer Sex, the final part of Mind Of A Murderer, asks why men are overwhelmingly more likely to kill than women.
When Jason Harper discovered that his wife, Sam, was having an affair and was planning to leave him, something
inside him snapped – as he later told the jury at his trial. He strangled her with their daughter’s skipping rope. He
was found guilty of manslaughter and, 18...
Mind Of A Murderer is a new BBC Science series which examines why people kill. Looking at new research by
neurologists, psychologists, psychiatrists and biochemists, and with powerful testimony from murder witnesses and
murderers themselves, the series reveals the latest thinking on the causes of violent behavior and considers how
murderers can best be treated and managed.
‘Trying ...
Neurological research using the latest advances in brain imaging has revealed deficits and brain damage in certain
types of murderer. Mind Of A Murderer investigates how childhood physical abuse can result in types of brain
damage that may increase the likelihood of committing murder later in life.
Cases featured on the programme include that of Dante Pag,e who violently murdered 24-y...
Part of Channel 4’s Bodyshock series, this documentary featured, as per the title, children as young as 8 years old who were suffering from gender dysphoria. This condition means that the children featured were/are convinced they were born in the “wrong” bodies and their parents have taken the decision to take on board their child’s deep-seated longing to be the opposite sex...
The inside story on transcending the brain, with David Lynch, Award-winning film director of Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mullholland Drive, Inland Empire; John Hagelin, Ph.D., Quantum physicist featured in “What the bleep do we know?;”
And Fred Travis, Ph.D., Director, Center for Brain, Consciousness and Cognition Maharishi University of Management. Credits: producers:UC Berkeley Edu...
Following the release of What the BLEEP Do We Know!?, The filmmakers were besieged by requests for more: More information, more science, more applications to their personal lives.
August 1, 2006 marks the response to these requests with the release of What the BLEEP – Down the Rabbit Hole, Quantum Edition multi-disc DVD set.
Featuring two (!) extended versions of What the BLEEP ...
Episode 1 – All in the Mind
Susan Greenfield explains why she believes all aspects of human experience will eventually be explained in terms of the physical processes of the brain. The story of how we have gradually come to understand the astonishing complexity of the brain is revealed, from the earliest crude studies of the effects of brain injury, through to the latest insights fr...
Presented by Robert Winston, How to Sleep Better is a practical guide to the world of sleep. The programme explores the common problems, dangers and the mysteries that have puzzled scientists for years.
One in five motorway accidents are attributed to a lack of sleep, which was also a contributory factor in disasters such as Chernobyl and the Challenger shuttle explosion.
This...
Derek Ogilvie says he can read the minds of infants who are too young to communicate verbally.
Now he agrees to undergo a series of controlled experiments to test the limits of his alleged abilities.
He even faces the ultimate sceptic in the form of James Randi, an investigator of the paranormal who has offered $1million to anyone who can provide evidence of the supernatural....
