- -: Does Email Make Workers Less Efficient?
May 5, 2011 (about 2 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/ideas_economy_innovation Justine Thody presents study results that detail the impacts of digital distractions on productivity in the workplace. Thody emphasizes that even in the age of Twitter and Facebook, email remains the greatest culprit. ...
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- -: Joshua Foer: Using Memory to Prolong Your (Perceived) Life
June 10, 2011 (about 2 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/03/14/Joshua_Foer_Moonwalking_with_Einstein "Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it," reads Joshua Foer from his book, Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, explaining that creating more worthwhile memories can lengt...
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- -: Testosterone and Crime: What Can Genes Tell Us About Behavior?
August 3, 2011 (almost 2 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/04/13/Steve_Jones_Nature_Nurture_or_Neither Evolutionary biologist Steve Jones notes that genes responsible for circulating testosterone in men are also to blame for most violent and criminal behavior. He argues, however, that the environment in which a per...
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- -: Hugh Mackay on the Human Desire to Be Taken Seriously
August 4, 2011 (almost 2 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/03/22/Hugh_Mackay_What_Makes_Us_Tick Hugh Mackay, author of What Makes Us Tick?, examines how the desire to be taken seriously affects human behavior. "If we're not taken seriously enough it usually brings out the worst in us," says Mackay. "Much anger in h...
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- -: Your Boy Peeing on the Seat? Gamify the Toilet
October 10, 2011 (over 1 year ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/gamificationsummit_nyc_2011 Kevin Richardson, senior producer at MTV Network's Nickelodeon Kids and Family Games Group, shows how "fun theories" can dramatically alter unpleasant behaviors with positive reinforcement trough simple games. Want to get y...
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- -: Neuromarketing: How to Appeal to the Reptilian Brain
October 13, 2011 (over 1 year ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/idea_festival_2011 Neuromarketing pioneer Patrick Renvoise discusses the importance of visual stimulation as it relates to the reptilian brain's influence on consumer spending habits. ----- Neuromarketing expert Patrick Renvoisé exploits his knowled...
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- -: Alison Gopnik: What do babies think?
October 10, 2011 (over 1 year ago)http://www.ted.com "Babies and young children are like the R&D division of the human species," says psychologist Alison Gopnik. Her research explores the sophisticated intelligence-gathering and decision-making that babies are really doing when they play. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the...
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- -: Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar
October 13, 2011 (over 1 year ago)http://www.ted.com On any given day we're lied to from 10 to 200 times, and the clues to detect those lie can be subtle and counter-intuitive. Pamela Meyer, author of Liespotting, shows the manners and "hotspots" used by those trained to recognize deception -- and she argues honesty is a value wo...
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- -: Authors@Google: Jeremy Bailenson, Infinite Reality: Revealing the Blueprints of our Virtual Lives
November 3, 2011 (over 1 year ago)The coming explosion of immersive digital technology, combined with recent progress in unlocking how the mind works, will soon revolutionize our lives in ways only science fiction has imagined. In Infinite Reality, Jeremy Bailenson (Stanford University) and Jim Blascovich (University of Californi...
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- -: Human Perception Viewed as a Phenotypic Expression
November 3, 2011 (over 1 year ago)Google Tech Talk October 26, 2011 Presented by Dennis Proffitt. ABSTRACT Visual experience relates the optically-specified environment to people's ever-changing purposes and the embodied means by which these purposes are achieved. Depending upon their purpose, people turn themselves into walk...
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