Social Sciences Audio & Video

At its core, The Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, raising exceptional children, becoming more productive, building revolutionary companies and social movements, and achieving success is understanding how habits work.

This speech, recited before court in 1873 is one of the greatest statements ever made on behalf of women's suffrage.

Is IQ destiny? Not nearly as much as we think. This fascinating and persuasive program argues that our view of human intelligence...

In work, sport, conversation or hobby, you have experienced, yourself, the suspension of time, the freedom of complete absorption in activity.

To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has...

We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says technosociologist Zeynep Tufecki.

This course surveys questions about human behavior and mental life ranging from how you see to why you fall in love.

Psychologist William James now stands as one of the true intellectual titans to come out of late 19th century America. With The Will to Believe, first published in 1896, he argues that it is defendable to adopt a certain belief without prior evidence of its truth.

Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives; how people get what they want or need especially when other people want or need the same thing.

An introduction to the fundamentals of Analytical Psychology in which the listener is able to develop a thorough understanding of Carl Jung's Analytical Psychology.