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What can you do with a social work major? In Social Work you can expect to study psychology, sociology, statistics, politics and so much more. Basically, Social Work is the study of individuals and how to best help others function in their environment. If you possess a desire to help peo
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Social Psychology Part 1: The Power of Situation and Framing
Social psychology is an enormous field, which studies how people's thoughts, feelings, and beliefs are constructed within the context of interactions with other members of society. Why do we act differently around different people? How do we develop and maintain our belief systems? What is
From playlist Psychology
Social Psychology Part 3: Looking at Each Other
So far in the realm of social psychology we've examined the power of situation and framing, as well as the manner in which we view ourselves. Now let's take a look at how we view other people. How is society built upon the ways that we interact, and trust that other people will behave? Sc
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This video is part of an online course, Intro to Algorithms. Check out the course here: https://www.udacity.com/course/cs215.
From playlist Introduction to Algorithms
Types of Assets: Financial, Tangible, and Intangible
How do people get rich? Rather than having very high-paying jobs, wealth is more easily accumulated through ownership of assets. This is anything of value that can be converted into money. Of course we know about assets like houses and other properties, or even expensive collectibles, but
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Shawndra Hill "The Value of Social (for) TV"
http://strataconf.com/stratany2013/public/schedule/detail/31311 Social TV is a term that broadly describes the online social interactions that occur between viewers while watching television. Television shows are now instigating online social interactions between viewers by requesting vie
From playlist Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2013
What Your Home Says About You...
One of our most basic psychological needs is to create a home, that is a space that is decorated in such a way as to reflect our values back to us. That's why we can legitimately get so excited (or distressed) by matters of home decoration - and why, after too long on the road, we long to
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Diverse Minds: Kafui Dzirasa, Science Talk - 2/11/2021
Kafui Dzirasa is the inaugural speaker in Caltech’s Diverse Minds Seminar Series*. His science talk is titled, “Mapping the structure of emotions”. To read the abstract and find out more about Dr. Dzirasa visit his bio page on the Diverse Minds website: https://diverseminds.caltech.edu/sp
From playlist Diverse Minds Seminar Series
The Primordial Blessing of Abstraction and the Curse of a Compositional Mind
Human children are arguably the most effective learners on the planet. In five short years, they develop a commonsense understanding of whatever physical, cultural, and social environment they find themselves in, building systems of knowledge that are unique in the living world. How might
From playlist Whitney Humanities Center
Seminar 3: Jessica Sommerville - Infants' Sensitivity to Cost and Benefit
MIT RES.9-003 Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course, Summer 2015 View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/RES-9-003SU15 Instructor: Jessica Sommerville Infants‰Ûª registration of effort-related costs in the actions of others, and its correlation with activation in sensorimotor cor
From playlist MIT RES.9-003 Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course, Summer 2015
Species-Being: In Defense of Humanistic Social Critique
Karen Ng is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. She specializes in nineteenth-century German philosophy and Frankfurt School Critical Theory. She is the author of Hegel’s Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic (2020).
From playlist Whitney Humanities Center
On the classification of fusion categories – Sonia Natale – ICM2018
Algebra Invited Lecture 2.5 On the classification of fusion categories Sonia Natale Abstract: We report, from an algebraic point of view, on some methods and results on the classification problem of fusion categories over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. © Interna
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Foundations of Modern Social Thought (SOCY 151) Durkheim understood life sciences as divided into three branches: biology, which is interested in the body, psychology, which deals with the personality, and sociology, which deals with collective representations. In The Rules of Sociolog
From playlist Foundations of Modern Social Theory with Iván Szelényi
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer - Developmental AI: machines that learn like children
Current approaches to Al and machine learning are still fundamentally limited in comparison with the amazing learning capabilities of children. What is remarkable is not that some children become world champions in certain games or specialties: it is rather their autonomy, open-endedness,
From playlist LSC 2022
Lecture 1.5: Winrich Freiwald - Primates, Faces, & Intelligence
MIT RES.9-003 Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course, Summer 2015 View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/RES-9-003SU15 Instructor: Winrich Freiwald Facial recognition in the brain. Primate vs. mammalian brain anatomy, social intelligence hypothesis, emotion and facial expression
From playlist MIT RES.9-003 Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course, Summer 2015
Social Reform as a Path to Political Leadership: A Dynamic Model by Souvik Dutta
Program Summer Research Program on Dynamics of Complex Systems ORGANIZERS: Amit Apte, Soumitro Banerjee, Pranay Goel, Partha Guha, Neelima Gupte, Govindan Rangarajan and Somdatta Sinha DATE : 15 May 2019 to 12 July 2019 VENUE : Madhava hall for Summer School & Ramanujan hall f
From playlist Summer Research Program On Dynamics Of Complex Systems 2019
Lecture 3.3: Alia Martin - Developing an Understanding of Communication
MIT RES.9-003 Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course, Summer 2015 View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/RES-9-003SU15 Instructor: Alia Martin Infant development of understanding speech as communicative action with information transfer, reasoning about information access and sour
From playlist MIT RES.9-003 Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course, Summer 2015