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Psychology & Behavioral Science
1One Second Before: How the Brain Makes You Do What You Do2The Sea Slug That Changed Everything: Eric Kandel and the Biology of Memory3Your Brain on Stress: Baboons, Cortisol, and the Biology of Social Pain4Plasticity: The Brain That Changes Itself5The Teenage Brain Is Not Broken: Adolescence, Risk, and the Unfinished Cortex6The Geography of Rationality7Heuristics: The Shortcuts That Built Civilization8The Marshmallow Test Was Wrong9Why You Can't Tickle Yourself10Kandel's Rats and Your Study Habits11Obedience: The Experiment That Haunts Psychology12The Tribe: In-Groups, Out-Groups, and the Biology of Us vs. Them13Adolescence Is Not a Disease14Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers15The Replication Crisis: When Psychology Broke Itself
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Prof. Robert Sapolsky - The Neuroscience Behind Behavior

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The biology of our best and worst selves | Robert Sapolsky

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Charlie Rose Brain Series Episode 07: The Emotional Brain

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One Second Before: How the Brain Makes You Do What You Do

This unit opens with one of the most disturbing case studies in the history of neuroscience, the 1966 University of Texas shooting, to introduce Sapolsky's timescale framework for understanding human behavior. From the amygdala firing one second before an action to the evolutionary pressures that shaped our brains over millennia, students learn that understanding behavior requires zooming out through every timescale simultaneously.

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