Sai-cology is a series that teaches you how to use psychology and science to help you change your life!
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Psychology Resources & Interesting Media
- Mind Games - "A unique agency designed to solve their clients' problems using the real science of human motivation and manipulation."
- Brain Games - "Brain Games provides a fascinating window into the inner workings of the brain as never before."
- Mind Field - "Mind Field reveals some of the most mind-blowing, significant, and least-understood aspects of the human psyche. Through expert interviews, rare footage from historical experiments, and brand-new, ground-breaking demonstrations of human nature at work, Mind Field explores the surprising things we know (and don’t know) about why people are the way they are."
- Crash Course Psychology
- Psychology TED Talks
- TED Ed Psychology
- You Are Not So Smart - Great Blog and Website that talks about more psychological effects to explain our behaviors and interactions with science!
Episode Topics, Transcripts, and Sources
Episode 0: Intro - Glasses Effect, Confounding Variables & About Me
Make People Like You
Episode 1: Like Minds - Reciprocal Liking, Mirroring, Name Letter Effect, Matching Hypothesis, Assortative Mating, Sexual Imprinting
Episode 2: Hanging Around - Mere Exposure Effect, Propinquity Effect, Contact Hypothesis
Episode 3: Give and Take - Parroting, Advice, Ego Suspension, Conversation Tips, Self-Disclosure, Gossiping, Compliments, Favors, Reciprocity, Ben Franklin Effect, Cognitive Dissonance
Episode 2: Hanging Around - Mere Exposure Effect, Propinquity Effect, Contact Hypothesis
Episode 3: Give and Take - Parroting, Advice, Ego Suspension, Conversation Tips, Self-Disclosure, Gossiping, Compliments, Favors, Reciprocity, Ben Franklin Effect, Cognitive Dissonance
Personalities
Episode 4: Hypnotists & Mind Readers - Adrenalized Implantation, Suggestibility, Placebo Effect, Barnum Effect, Forer Effect, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Episode 5: The Changing Self - Self-Concept, Self-Esteem/Self-Worth, Ideal Self, Cognitive Dissonance, Congruence, Prosocial/Helpful Behavior, Change Aversion
Episode 5: The Changing Self - Self-Concept, Self-Esteem/Self-Worth, Ideal Self, Cognitive Dissonance, Congruence, Prosocial/Helpful Behavior, Change Aversion
Mind Control
Episode 6: Power, Coincidence & Self Destruction - Magical Thinking, Good Luck Charms, Self-Efficacy, Loci of Control, Placebo Effect, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Suggestibility, Talismen, Endowment Effect, Loss Aversion, Comfort/Transition Objects, Apophenia, Coincidence, Pareidolia, Gambler's Effect, Confirmation Bias, Same Boat, Unconditional Positive Regard, Reverse Psychology, Similar Situation, Advice, Love/Hate Circuit
Episode 7: Rainbow Magic, Priming and Prejudice - Topics: Color Theory, Priming, Primacy, Recency, Anchoring Effect/Adjustment, Reducing Prejudice, Counter Stereotypic Imagining, Individuation, Perspective Taking, Increased Contact
Episode 7.5: Mind Reading - Topics: Mind Reading
Episode 7: Rainbow Magic, Priming and Prejudice - Topics: Color Theory, Priming, Primacy, Recency, Anchoring Effect/Adjustment, Reducing Prejudice, Counter Stereotypic Imagining, Individuation, Perspective Taking, Increased Contact
Episode 7.5: Mind Reading - Topics: Mind Reading
Wants and Feels
Episode 8: Memory + Identity - Topics: Music, memory and emotion, reminiscence bump, Targeted Memory Reactivation, Memory Consolidation, Neural Replay, False Memories, Ship of Theseus Paradox, Identity
Episode 9: Control What Others Want - Topics: Loss Aversion, Endowment Effect, Risk Aversion, Regret Aversion, Sunk Cost Fallacy, Status Quo Bias, Change Aversion, Decoy Effect
Episode 9: Control What Others Want - Topics: Loss Aversion, Endowment Effect, Risk Aversion, Regret Aversion, Sunk Cost Fallacy, Status Quo Bias, Change Aversion, Decoy Effect
Group Psychology
Episode 10: Cult-Making 101 - Topics: Cults, Charming Leader, Belief System, Control, System of Influence, Compliance, Conformity, Internalization, Identification, Asch Line Studies, Normative Influence, Informational Influence, Physical Synchronization, Vulnerability, Heuristics, Social Loafing, Group Polarization, Common Knowledge Effect, Group Think, Power of Many, Conformity Effect, Social Facilitation Effect, Group Importance
Episode 11: Why We Obey - Topics: Loss of Personal Responsibility, Bystander Effect, Food in the Door Effect, Self- Justification, Cognitive Dissonance, Learned Helplessness, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Attribution Styles, Conditioning
Episode 12: Power - Topics: Types of Power, Reward, Coercive, Referent, Legitimate, Expert, Informational, Power Paradox, Principle of Least Interest, Moral Panic, Gaslighting, Social Learning Theory, Vicarious Reinforcement, Attention, Retention, Reproduction, Motivation, Resisting Influence, Minority
Episode 11: Why We Obey - Topics: Loss of Personal Responsibility, Bystander Effect, Food in the Door Effect, Self- Justification, Cognitive Dissonance, Learned Helplessness, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Attribution Styles, Conditioning
Episode 12: Power - Topics: Types of Power, Reward, Coercive, Referent, Legitimate, Expert, Informational, Power Paradox, Principle of Least Interest, Moral Panic, Gaslighting, Social Learning Theory, Vicarious Reinforcement, Attention, Retention, Reproduction, Motivation, Resisting Influence, Minority
Negotiation
Episode 13: Sell Anything - Topics: Negotiation and Persuasion, Sum Cost Effect/Discount Pricing, Scarcity and Exclusivity, Ask My Manager Close, Sales Closings, Loss Aversion, Framing Effect
Episode 13.5: Case Closed - Topics: Closing Techniques
Episode 14: Get What You Want - Topics: Halo Effect, Rhyming, Mnemonic Devices, Because, Heuristics, Foot in the Door, Door in the Face, Because, Cortisol Selection Bias, Prime Consumption Compliance Window, Choice Exhaustion
Episode 13.5: Case Closed - Topics: Closing Techniques
Episode 14: Get What You Want - Topics: Halo Effect, Rhyming, Mnemonic Devices, Because, Heuristics, Foot in the Door, Door in the Face, Because, Cortisol Selection Bias, Prime Consumption Compliance Window, Choice Exhaustion
The Truth
Episode 15: Tell The Truth - Topics: Same Side, Ego, Threes, Intentional Wrongs, Silence, Religion, Dirty, Eyes
Dreams Come True
Episode 16: Dreams Come True - Habituating, Realization, Actualization, Hierarchy of Needs, Reverse Psychology, Self Fulfilling Prophecies, Self Sabotage