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  • čas přidán 17. 07. 2011
  • Acclaimed evolutionary psychologist Paul Bloom reveals how certain universal aspects of the human mind explain our curious desires, tastes and pleasures.
    Listen to the full audio: www.thersa.org/...

Komentáře • 45

  • @TheWordsmythe
    @TheWordsmythe Před 11 lety +35

    "If you want to enjoy wine more, don't buy more expensive wine; learn about wine." I love that. 16:12

  • @evolutionschildren
    @evolutionschildren Před 12 lety +12

    Yup, it's the Yale professor from the psychology lecture series. He gives great lectures. I feel like this talk helps illustrates the power of spin doctors and good story tellers.

  • @martinbeco
    @martinbeco Před 13 lety +5

    Our likes are subjective. That's why advertising is still around. We seldom turn to reason for our shopping habits. It's all rather emotional.

  • @ScorpiaX
    @ScorpiaX Před 13 lety +5

    Love these videos. Even if its about placebo, he also looks like the guy teaching Yale Courses online.

  • @furrowsan
    @furrowsan Před 4 měsíci +1

    What we believe to be malevolent is more painful that not

  • @ferdi1987
    @ferdi1987 Před 13 lety +2

    yet another great presentation!!! well done

  • @boomboom23
    @boomboom23 Před 13 lety +1

    These RSA videos have made me become so much more interested in psychology.

  • @_souldier
    @_souldier Před 2 lety +1

    because it Reminds us of a Certain Something

  • @LimeyLassen
    @LimeyLassen Před 13 lety +4

    I can't figure why evolutionary psychology gets such a bad rap. These guys really know their stuff!

  • @mpcc2022
    @mpcc2022 Před 9 lety +13

    I always feel odd or like a psychopath when I watch these things, because most things do not appeal to me in the same way as they do to other people. Everything is replaceable and I don't care about sentiment; I'm rarely not disillusioned by fame, and I don't care about tradition.

    • @SecretEyeSpot
      @SecretEyeSpot Před 7 lety +5

      Joshua L psychopathy has less to do with your egocentrism, and more to do with the inability to experience emotion *except* through the predation of others..
      You don't feel "odd", you feel "apathetic"..
      learn to discern the states of your awareness so that you can take responsibility for *why* you feel as you do..

  • @DonMahaffeyWeaverII
    @DonMahaffeyWeaverII Před 9 lety +1

    Informative. Thanks.

  • @xtremetom180
    @xtremetom180 Před 12 lety +2

    some interesting ideas here

  • @sofiiiabergqvist
    @sofiiiabergqvist Před 13 lety +1

    This is really interesting! I love RSA videos :D

  • @2at8er
    @2at8er Před 13 lety +1

    Pretty interesting

  • @rawrrdolll
    @rawrrdolll Před 13 lety +5

    I am probably the only 15 year old that takes there time out to watch RSA

  • @Iksvomid
    @Iksvomid Před 2 lety

    #AllPaintingsMatter

  • @Kristopher-Law
    @Kristopher-Law Před 10 měsíci

    Hi the link no longer works to listen to the full thing, any idea where to find it?

  • @sirmoglok
    @sirmoglok Před 13 lety +1

    i was bursting to spurt out an example while listening to them talk at the end. If you create a horror movie, and find a way to lie to everyone that it was made in the 80's by murderous psychopaths, then there will be lots of people that want to see it. I guess they do things like that already to a small extent, when they use 'based on a true story' (blair witch for example) or when it contains 'video footage of real parts of that story'

  • @Dman9fp
    @Dman9fp Před 3 lety +1

    Good video poor title. Should be more "quality versus expectations", over why exactly we like what we like

  • @Night.League
    @Night.League Před 13 lety +3

    counter-strike applies to this in so many ways; status, value, even when you're losing all the time just being able to play against those great players you're still experiencing pleasure

    • @SecretEyeSpot
      @SecretEyeSpot Před 7 lety

      dktne "psychology of games"

    • @Iksvomid
      @Iksvomid Před 2 lety

      Gamers are the most oppressed race.

  • @Culturedropout
    @Culturedropout Před 13 lety +1

    One person who watched this video didn't realize they were drinking the same wine the whole time...

  • @realpassionlife
    @realpassionlife Před 12 lety +1

    that's what i thought! haha

  • @OriginalTexcalibur
    @OriginalTexcalibur Před 13 lety +1

    I enjoyed the presentation but disagree with the Shakespeare. Shakespeare's comment never includes the concept of intent. His entire presentation he covered very well how perception had bearing on information processing, reward/pleasure, and even "intent" in the electro-shock" experiments. Shakespeare's quote does not cover this aspect of perception because it ignores "The Golden Rule" when it is applied to intent. But, please don't think I didn't enjoy this because I am sharing it :D

  • @Night.League
    @Night.League Před 13 lety

    @brod2man :)

  • @quietthomas
    @quietthomas Před 13 lety

    What's the deal with the icons at the end (19:10) Creative Commons, Male Toilet, no money, equality.

  • @purpmusix
    @purpmusix Před 13 lety

    @TheDepreso If you find him annoying then you may aswell forget everything you know about the last 50 years olf natural history. Can't have your cake AND eat it.

  • @dantezco
    @dantezco Před 13 lety

    @xjustamem0ryx because humans abhor change.

  • @iAozora
    @iAozora Před 13 lety

    @rawrrdolll
    Nope, I'm also 15, and English isn't even my native language ^-^

    • @iAozora
      @iAozora Před 4 lety

      @Minor socialist I think that, unless you learned a language from birth, you can never really call it your 'native' language. But I'm honestly not sure.

  • @tim3440
    @tim3440 Před 2 lety

    Horrible sound quality

  • @GuidoPerdomo
    @GuidoPerdomo Před 13 lety

    damn looks a lot like Al Gore

  • @brod2man
    @brod2man Před 13 lety +1

    western psychology has almost caught up to 2500 year old buddhist psychology lolololol