Belief Psychology Videos

Psychology Of Belief Part 10 Summary And Conclusions

Let's face it. we could make 10 hours worth of this stuff, but hopefully the point has been made. all religious faiths, without exception, are empirically unjustified. they exist only because human beings are prone to psychological manipulation and cognitive bias. not only have we conclusively debun...

Our Beliefs Filter Reality For Us By Dr Louise Aznavour Phd Psychologist Www.stayingupbeat.com

Visit stayingupbeat.com contact 514 954 1351 e mail louiseaznavour stayingupbeat.com our beliefs filter reality for us. ultimately, our beliefs become our reality. charlie chaplin said life is a tragedy from close up and a divine comedy from a distance. usually, when facing challenges we ...

Al Jazeera Wafa Sultan Discussion On Muslim Belief And Clash Of Civilizations.

Arab american psychologist, wafa sultan speaks out on al jazeera tv about the way muslims have taken a path to violence and destruction, the clash of civilizations . she compares between the actions of muslims to jews and christians. she speaks in plain common sense terms and makes you ask the ques...

Psychology Of Belief, Part 7 Projection

Have you ever wondered why creationist christians love to call atheism and evolution faith based religions? well, as it turns out, sigmund freud was right. classical psychological projection is a defense mechanism whereby people deny their own faults by perceiving them in other people. projecting ...

Psychology Of Belief, Part 6 Hallucinations

Hearing voices it's not just for schizophrenics any more hallucination is a relatively common phenomenon. virtually all of us will, at one point or another, experience sensory perceptions generated entirely out of our own minds. sadly, some people are more prone to this than others, and it is enti...

Psychology Of Belief, Part 4 Misinformation Effect

In this episode, we learn why personal testimony is universally regarded as the weakest form of evidence. yet despite this fact, personal testimonies are heavily emphasized among religious circles anyway. that says a lot about the value of truth among religious circles, doesn't it?

Psychology Of Belief Part 6 Hallucinations

Hallucination is a relatively common phenomenon. virtually all of us will, at one point or another, experience sensory perceptions generated entirely out of our own minds. some people are more prone to this than others, and it is entirely within reason that every spiritual experience in human histor...

Philip Kitcher, Human Nature And Belief, Wed 8 July

Evolutionary psychology and the legacy of sociobiology professor philip kitcher columbia university, new york city, usa summary the human sociobiology of the 1970s and 1980s was, i have argued, characterised by overly speculative hypotheses about human nature and the evolution of human tendencies...

The Psychology Of Religious Belief

Clip from pbs documentary series the human spark episode 3 brain matters hosted by alan alda

Psychology Of Belief, Part 2 Insufficient Justification

In the previous video, we learned how peer pressure leads to public conformity. now we shall see how public conformity can be turned into genuine belief, even when the belief is embarrassingly false. paper cited fpce.uc.pt festinger l., and carlsmith, jm, cognitive consequences of forced complianc...

Psychology Of Belief Part 2 Insufficient Justification

In the previous video, we learned how peer pressure leads to public conformity. now we shall see how public conformity can be turned into genuine belief, even when the belief is embarrassingly false. for example, if someone realizes they have wasted a large portion of their life on religious rituals...

Psychology Of Belief, Part 3 Confirmation Bias

Presentation of the principles of confirmation bias and belief perseverance. the natural human tendency is to seek out only the evidence that supports what we already believe, and to ignore evidence that may debunk our beliefs. we also tend to cling to beliefs even after the original evidence which ...

37. Lawrence Krauss Beyond Belief 2008

Lawrence m. krauss is foundation professor in the school of earth and space exploration and the physics department, co director of the cosmology initiative and inaugural director of the origins initiative at arizona state university. he is an internationally known theoretical physicist with wide res...

16. Vs Ramachandran Beyond Belief 2008

Vs ramachandran is director of the center for brain and cognition and professor with the psychology department and the neurosciences program at uc san diego. a former bbc reith lecturer, he co authored phantoms in the brain probing the mysteries of the human mind, with sandra blakeslee, and is the ...

Psychology Of Belief Part 7 Projection

Have you ever wondered why creationist christians love to call atheism and evolution faith based religions? well, as it turns out, sigmund freud was right. classical psychological projection is a defense mechanism whereby people deny their own faults by perceiving them in other people. projecting ...