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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

By dog | Published: July 26, 2012

(June 29, 2012) Steven Pinker argues that, contrary to popular belief, violence has declined over long stretches of time and today we may be living in the most peaceable era in our specie’s existence. The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University held its first annual Behavioral Science Summit on [...]

Posted in Stanford | Also tagged anthropology, behavioral, death, decline, government, history, peace, Science, Social, Violence, war | Comments closed

Desire Engine: How to Engineer User Behavior

By dog | Published: July 8, 2012

Complete video available for purchase at fora.tv Behavior Engineer and Blogger at NirAndFar.com Nir Eyal explains triggers, the first step in the desire engine that motivates behavioral change.

Posted in ForaTV | Also tagged 2012, Behavior, behavioral, Business, customer, design, desire, Economics, engagement, engine, engineering, entertainment, experience, eyal, game, gameplay, gamification, gamify, gaming, habit, marketing, media, motivation, New, nir, summit, technology, trigger | Comments closed

Future Rewards: How Your Brain Gets Motivated

By dog | Published: July 1, 2012

Complete video available for purchase at fora.tv What’s more rewarding — eating a piece of candy, or the sense of anticipation you feel just before you eat it? As far as your brain is concerned, it’s probably the latter. Cynergey’s Kes Sampanthar explains what dopamine reveals about the neuroscience of motivation.

Posted in ForaTV | Also tagged 2012, anticipation, behavioral, brain, dopamine, extrinsic, gamification, gsummit, impulse, incentive, intrinsic, kes, mind, motivation, Neuroscience, research, reward, sampanthar, satisfaction, self-control, summit, training | Comments closed

The Real-World Impact of Playing Games

By dog | Published: June 28, 2012

Complete video available for purchase at fora.tv Game researcher Nicole Lazzaro talks about how infusing games into our working and daily lives can have dramatic effects. Lazzaro is a world renowned for making games more fun. She designed the iPhone’s first accelerometer game in 2007, now called Tilt World. She has advised the White House [...]

Posted in ForaTV | Also tagged 2012, Business, design, development, emotions, engagement, entertainment, experience, four, fun, game, gameplay, games, gamification, gaming, keys, lazzaro, media, motivations, New, nicole, personal, play, research, strategy, summit, technology, tilt, to, World, xeo | Comments closed

Being Human: What Does It Mean To You?

By dog | Published: June 24, 2012

Complete video available for free at fora.tv At Being Human 2012, Tami Simon asks what “Being Human” means to Jon Kabat-Zinn, Gelek Rimpoche, and Richie Davidson. Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. is Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Born in Lhasa, Tibet in 1939, Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche was recognized as an incarnate [...]

Posted in ForaTV | Also tagged anthropology, Behavior, biases, brain, consciousness, davidson, enlightenment, evolution, experience, gelek, Human, humanity, identity, intelligence, j, Jon, kabat-zinn, mind, motivation, Natural, Neuroscience, philosophy, richard, rimpoche, Science, sciences, self, society, spirituality, subjectivity, wellness | Comments closed

The ‘Primitive’ Sense of Smell and the Brain

By dog | Published: June 21, 2012

Complete video available for free at fora.tv American neuroscientist Richard Axel discusses the problem of interpreting the real world within the tangled web of neurons within the brain, focusing on one of the brain’s most “primitive” senses, the sense of smell. Axel’s work on the olfactory system won him and Linda B. Buck, a former [...]

Posted in ForaTV | Also tagged abbott, anthropology, axel, brain, center, cuny, dna, evolution, evolutionary, external, f, graduate, laurence, mind, Natural, neurology, neurons, Neuroscience, olefaction, olefactory, physical, primal, reality, representation, richard, Science, sciences, sense, sensory, smell, World | Comments closed

Thomas Metzinger: No Such Thing as a Self

By dog | Published: June 17, 2012

Complete video available for free at fora.tv Thomas Metzinger proposes that the concept of the self “is not a thing, but a process,” an idea inspired by his philosophical experience with materialism and out of body experiences. —- As we use the tools of science to explore the nature of humanity, we are learning more [...]

Posted in ForaTV | Also tagged analytical, anthropology, Behavior, being, bias, body, brain, consciousness, enlightenment, evolution, experience, first-person, Human, humanity, intelligence, materialism, metzinger, mind, Natural, of, out;, perspective, phenomenal, philosophy, Science, sciences, self, spirituality, subjective, subjectivity, theory, thomas, wellness | Comments closed

Stereotype Threat: A Close Encounter – See It, Fix It

By dog | Published: June 14, 2012

(May 10, 2012) The Cubberley Lecture is the School of Education’s public forum for discussions of critical issues facing education. Stereotype threat is the experience of anxiety in a situation where a person has the potential to confirm a negative stereotype about his or her social group. In school, stereotype threat can cause underrepresented students [...]

Posted in Stanford | Also tagged achievement, african, american, diversity, education, gap, inequality, minority, occupation, performance, race, research, school, Social, states, stereotype, underperformance, united | Comments closed

Indian Hospital – Episode 5

By dog | Published: June 1, 2012

Dr Devi Shetty, the founder of Narayana Hrudayalaya hospital in Bangalore, never misses an opportunity to push his message of low-cost, affordable healthcare. His comments has generated publicity for his hospital and its services, leading to an increase in full fee-paying patients from overseas, a critical factor for the hospital’s cash flow.

Posted in Al Jazeera | Also tagged aljazeera, cardiac, doctors, economy, Faith, healthcare, hospital, Human, india, indian, medical, nurses, politics, Poverty, religion, Rights, Science, surgeons, technology, youtube | Comments closed

Criminal Intent and Predicting the Mental State of Others

By dog | Published: May 20, 2012

Complete video at: fora.tv Dr. Dorothy Cheney, an expert on primate social behavior and communication, examines the human trait of predicting the mental state of others. Cheney uses the example of the Murdoch phone hacking incident as an example to illustrate criminal intent. —– Studies on both animals and humans have shown definitively that individuals [...]

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Does Culture Affect How Bodies Function?

By dog | Published: May 6, 2012

Watch the complete video for free at fora.tv Anne Harrington, Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, questions the assumption that all human bodies work in the same way regardless of culture or environment. —- As we use the tools of science to explore the nature of humanity, we are learning more and [...]

Posted in ForaTV | Also tagged anne, body, cultural, culture, harrington, harvard, Health, history, holistic, medicine, mental, mind, Psychiatry, psychological, psychosomatic, relativism, university | Comments closed

Using Neuromarketing to Customize Your Entertainment

By dog | Published: May 3, 2012

Complete video available for purchase at: fora.tv President and CEO of NeuroFocus Dr. AK Pradeep explains how his dry wireless full-brain EEG could be applied to customize the consumer’s entertainment experience. —- Breakthroughs in neuroscience, technology and big data now enable companies to know more about their customers than ever before. Is this creating a [...]

Posted in ForaTV | Also tagged ak, brain, customization, customize, eeg, entertainment, iphone, marketing, measure, neurofocus, neuromarketing, Neuroscience, pradeep, research, scan, sensor, technology | Comments closed

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