I Watch 3 Episodes of Mind Field With Our Experts & Researchers

2019-10-14

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To celebrate, I asked a group of colleagues who worked with me on the series to sit down at Vsauce HQ and watch through three entire episodes. We go behind the scenes, elaborate on topics in the episodes, and dig in to what impact working on Mind Field has had on their current research.

GUESTS:

Samuel Veissière, PhD

Assistant Professor Department of Psychiatry, McGill University

Elisabeth de Kleer

Producer/Director

Daniel Toker

Neuroscience PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley

Judy Ho, PhD, ABPP

Clinical and Forensic Neuropsychologist

WATCH MIND FIELD:

SEASON ONE: /youtube/video/iqKdEhx-dD4

SEASON TWO:/youtube/video/1sl5KJ69qiA

SEASON THREE: /youtube/video/ktkjUjcZid0

2:41 – Placebos

4:50 – Emotional valence and colors

5:06 – Color and attentional bias

8:26 – Nonspecific effects

8:59 – Specific vs nonspecific effects

10:22 – Nonverbal people/animals and placebo effects

16:23 – Placebo studies

16:48 – Neuroenchantment

17:24 – Ethics of placebo studies

20:41 – Adaptive self-deception

22:28 – Transitional objects

22:59 – Accessory-assisted suggestion

27:07 – Neuroenchantment and genetic testing

39:23 – Placebo mind-reading experiment

47:15 – Placebo thought-implantation experiment

48:38 – Hypnosis

50:57 – Hypnotic susceptibility

51:52 – Placebo effect in animals

1:00:26 – Replication crisis in psychology

1:02:50 – Placebo psychedelics

1:05:15 – Tulpamancy and Tulpamancers

1:08:15 – Terror Management Theory

01:08:21 – Mortality salience

1:19:40 – Experimental ethics

1:43:10 – Cryonics

1:44:52 – Cryogenic preservation

1:55:00 – Socioeconomics of cryogenic preservation

2:12:48 – Digital immortality

2:17:09 – Learning and memory

2:17:24 – Hippocampus

2:18:13 – Video games and the brain

2:21:00 – How MRIs work

2:25:58 – Life-sized maze

2:34:16 – Blab droid

2:36:22 – Empathy towards machines

2:37:49 – Anthropomorphism

2:45:16 – Sleep and hippocampus memory retention

2:46:36 – Sleep and memory

2:49:08 - Effect of video games on memory

2:53:27 – Memory palaces