Michael Blastland explores the way human beings think, behave and make decisions. The status quo bias - do you prefer things, whether personal or politi...
Looks at how, when you surf the net or use a credit card, you leave a data trail as revealing as an animal’s spoor, compris...
An experiment showing how powerful words and 'pep talk' can be to motivate i...
Listen to the important work being carried out on teenage brain development and risk taking, especially the efforts needed to re...
When a young woman was brutally killed in an attack in New York in 1964, not one of 38 witnesses called for help. The case led to ...
The bystander effect and how fewer people than you might think intervene when they witness a crime taking place.
Details about the murder of Kitty Genovese and the 38 witnesses who did not intervene or call for help.
BBC Scotland investigates new research suggesting that modern technology is disrupting teenagers' body clocks, resulting in poor health...
What is the psychology of queuing? Do people perform better at sport if they are given encouragement? And how long does it take to learn how ...
Hannah and Adam investigate the strange goings on in the bodies and brains of teens as they emb...
Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by Rory Bremner, Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Prof Matthew Cobb to discover the science behind...
Professor Robert Winston and professor Tanya Byron discover how teenagers' changing brains means that what they choose to do at six...
Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore talks to Jim Al-Khalili about her research on the developing teenage brain.
Program about taking risks with children, growing up, learning when to develop and when to encourage the child to ''take a...
Michael Mosley ends his look at the history of experimental psychology by exploring how experiments on abnormal brains can re...
Dr Michael Mosley investigates how scientists have struggled to understand that most irrational and deeply complex part of our min...
Michael Mosley traces the sinister ways science has been used to try to control our minds, finding that its pursuit has led to...
Dr Eagleman journeys into the future, and asks what's next for the human brain and for our species.
This episode looks at how the human brain relies on other brains to thrive and survive.
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