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- Why the Internet Needs Content Labels. Time Magazine (Nov 21, 2024)
- Doom scrolling really does make you more depressed, study finds. The Sunday Times (Nov 21, 2024)
- Doom scrolling on your phone makes you depressed, study finds. The Independent (Nov 21, 2024)
- Scientists reveal intriguing effect of doomscrolling on your brain. Daily Mail (Nov 22, 2024)
- ‘Digital diet’ widget tells you if websites are good for your mental health or not. The Telegraph (Nov 21, 2024).
- Doom scrolling really does make you more depressed study finds. The Australian (Nov 22, 2024)
- Mental health warning issued over scrolling negative content online & joining social media row. The Sun (Nov 21, 2024)
- Poor mental health linked to browsing negative content online. Health World Tech (Nov 21, 2024)
- Feel like the universe is sending you signs? Blame apophenia. Self (Nov 20, 2024)
- The Exact Hour You Hit Peak Vacation Happiness—and How to Make That Feeling Last. The Wall Street Journal (Sep 11, 2024)
- Mastering your mood: How optimism and lifestyle changes boost well-being. Sunday Observer (Aug 11, 2024)
- Stuck in a rut? How to appreciate your life again, according to science. NPR (June 26, 2024)
- Why We Get Bored of the Best Things in Life—and How to Fight It. GQ (June 7, 2024)
- How to stop taking things for granted Greater Good Magazine (June 3, 2024)
- Signs of midlife boredom that mean you could be on the brink of a crisis. The Telegraph (May 7, 2024)
- Nvidia’s CEO co-founded his $2 trillion company at a Denny’s breakfast booth. CNBC (May 1, 2024)
- O conselho de uma neurocientista para ‘desabituar’ o cérebro e evitar situações que nos fazem mal. BBC News Brazil (April 23, 2024)
- Los consejos de una neurocientífica para “deshabituar” el cerebro y evitar situaciones que nos hacen daño. BBC News Mundo (April 22, 2024)
- Books in Brief. Nature (April 19, 2024)
- Want a mood boost? Get out there and try something new. The Washington Post (April 9, 2024)
- Brain science explains how to find joy hidden in your old habits. Fast Company (April 13, 2024)
- Exploring the factors that influence people’s ability to detect lies online. Medical Express (April 2, 2024)
- Sunday paper recommends. Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper (March 16, 2024)
- Trapped in routine? Here’s how to ‘dishabituate’ and rediscover joy. Big Think (March 8, 2024) PDF VERSION
- Reignite the sparks of joy hidden beneath your well worn habits. Next Big Idea Club (March 5, 2024) PDF VERSION
- Do you need to dishabitute from your job? Harpers Bazzar (March 4, 2024) PDF VERSION
- Joy Division: The Benefits of Breaking Up Fun. Psychology Today (March 4, 2024) PDF VERSION
- The Key to a Fulfilling Career? Variety. Harvard Business Review (Feb 28, 2024) PDF VERSION
- Dishabituation: How to trick your brain to find more joy in life. New Scientist. (Feb 27, 2024) PDF VERSION
- Why People Fail to Notice Horrors Around Them. The New York Times, (Feb 25, 2024) PDF VERSION
- New ways to count your blessings: Science-backed strategies for increasing your joy. CNN. (Feb 23, 2024) PDF VERSION
- Your Life Is Better Than You Think. Time Magazine, (Feb 22, 2024) PDF VERSION
- The big idea: this simple behavioural trick can help you get more out of life. The Guardian, (Feb 19, 2024) PDF VERSION
- Just because we are used to something, doesn’t make it OK’. The Psychologist, (Feb 5, 2024) PDF VERSION
- Business books: what to read this month. Financial Times, (5 Feb, 2024) PDF VERSION
- A new era at Science Advances. Science Advances (January, 10 2024) PDF VERSION
- What to read in 2024 – the year’s most anticipated books. The Listener (December, 28 2023)
- The Lies Are the Story in Today’s Politics. Business Insider (December, 20 2023) PDF VERSION
- Diversity and inclusion at Ericsson: Making better and fairer decisions. Ericsson Blog (November, 15 2023) PDF VERSION
- The Lies Are the Story in Today’s Politics. Time (November, 14 2023) PDF VERSION
- The reason why AI isn’t removing biases… but actually making them worse. Citywire (November, 10 2023) PDF VERSION
- When is it OK to lie?. NPR (August, 22 2023) PDF VERSION
- The Bridge Street Press buys Sharot and Sunstein’s book on ‘seeing the world with new eyes’. TheBookseller (August, 1 2023) PDF VERSION
- Humans will trade pain for useless information. Science. (July, 11 2023) PDF VERSION
- Artificial General Intelligence remains a distant dream despite LLM boom. The Register (July, 4 2023) PDF VERSION
- Warning: This item may kill you. WRAL NEWS (June, 19 2023) PDF VERSION
- Social media ‘trust’/’distrust’ buttons may reduce spread of misinformation: Study The Statesman (June, 9 2023) PDF VERSION
- Could Adding “Trust” And “Distrust” Buttons Be The Future Of Social Media? IFLScience (June, 6 2023) PDF VERSION
- Bring in trust buttons on social media to stop misinformation spreading online, study finds Evening Standard (June, 6 2023) PDF VERSION
- Social Media ‘Trust,’ ‘Distrust’ Buttons May Help Prevent Misinformation Spread, New Study Shows Tech Times (June, 6 2023) PDF VERSION
- Bring in trust buttons on social media to stop misinformation spreading online, study finds Yahoo! finance (June, 6 2023) PDF VERSION
- Deliberate ignorance is useful in certain circumstances, researchers say Science News (May, 16 2023) PDF VERSION
- Neuroscientist explains why thinking positive thoughts can actually make you happier Mirror (May, 4 2023) PDF VERSION
- Liar Liar, Brain on Fire: The Science of Lying Town & Country (April, 30 2023) PDF VERSION
- You need to develop this top skill to advance your career. Here are 5 ways to do it Fast Company (April, 4 2023) PDF VERSION
- When It Comes to Money, Your Brain Can Be Your Own Worst Enemy The New York Times (February, 26 2023) PDF VERSION
- Do You Have to Be an Optimist to Work Toward a Better World? The New York Times (February, 17 2023) PDF VERSION
- The science behind people telling lies, from tiny fibs to pathological deception Gothamist (January, 10 2023) PDF VERSION
- There’s A Workplace Revolution Unfolding In The Last Place You’d Expect: An NFL Locker Room HuffPost (December, 24 2022) PDF VERSION
- Why we should all beware the optimism trap The Times (November, 28 2022) PDF VERSION
- From cutting back on doomscrolling to avoiding fake news: How to protect your mental health in times of war El Paìs (March, 10 2022) PDF VERSION
- Why Europe’s summer season could boost UK vaccination numbers The national news (Feburary, 9 2022) PDF VERSION
- Tara Westover on Rachel Cusk, Jennifer Egan, and Madame Bovary Literary Hub (Feburary, 7 2022) PDF VERSION
- The Danger of Small Lies Thrive Global (Feburary, 2022) PDF VERSION
- ‘The virus is painfully real’: vaccine hesitant people are dying – and their loved ones want the world to listen The Guardian (September, 14 2021) PDF VERSION
- People are quick to believe the worst when they are stressed – study Evening Standard (July, 28 2021) PDF VERSION
- People are quick to believe the worst when they are stressed – study Yahoo!News (July, 28 2021) PDF VERSION
- Optimism researcher on the surprising human reaction to the pandemic Globes (March, 28 2021) PDF VERSION
- A Vaccination against the Pandemic of Misinformation Scientific American (February, 22 2021) PDF VERSION
- DAVOS 2021: Americans ‘no less happy’ despite coronavirus crisis Yahoo Finance (January, 25 2021) PDF VERSION
- The Birther Myth Stuck Around For Years. The Election Fraud Myth Might Too.
FiveThirtyEight (November, 23 2020) PDF VERSION - Nine Nonobvious Ways to Have Deeper Conversations The New York Times (November, 19 2020) PDF VERSION
- Pessimism Among People With Bipolar Disorder Is A Predictor Of Relapse Forbes (November, 12 2020) PDF VERSION
- Optimism may be dangerous in a pandemic, say behavioral psychologists Big Think (October, 27 2020) PDF VERSION
- Happiness expert: One technique for staying upbeat during the pandemic CNBC (October, 25 2020) PDF VERSION
- Why optimism could be unhelpful in a pandemic, according to behavioral psychologists CNBC (October, 21 2020) PDF VERSION
- A likely culprit in Covid-19 surges: People hell-bent on ignoring social distancing orders Vox (July, 2 2020) PDF VERSION
- Optimism bias needs a reality check Business Daily (June, 11 2020) PDF VERSION
- Trouble concentrating? Forgetting things? Our brains are doing strange things during this time of crisis. NPR (June, 11 2020) PDF VERSION
- People are optimistic about own COVID-19 risk, pessimistic about society Medical Press (June, 1 2020) PDF VERSION
- Why We Can’t Have A ‘Democratic’ Discourse On Death Penalty
Live Law (May, 30 2020) PDF VERSION - Researchers say a little pessimism may not be a bad thing to weather COVID-19 crisis The globe and mail (May, 16 2020) PDF VERSION
- So many people are convinced that they had covid-19 already The Washington Post (May, 6 2020) PDF VERSION
- Why We Can’t Stop Watching the News Psychology Today (April, 30 2020) PDF VERSION
- Childhood in the time of corona- How will this pandemic shape the next generation? The telegraph (April, 22 2020) PDF VERSION
- Why it’s still important to feel hope – even when everything seems so hopeless The telegraph (April, 15 2020) PDF VERSION
- Why we find it difficult to recognise a crisis BBC Future (April, 14 2020) PDF VERSION
- Why optimism may not be enough to carry us through times of crisis Fast Company (April, 5 2020) PDF VERSION
- “I’ll do what I want”- Why some ignore social distancing orders on coronavirus Vox (March, 24 2020) PDF VERSION
- What you experience may not exist. Inside the strange truth of reality New Scientist (January, 29 2020) PDF VERSION
- Why duplicity is a debate winner The Times (December 18, 2019) PDF VERSION
- The Truth about Lying and What It Does to the Body Psychology Today (December 20, 2019) PDF VERSION
- Strength of conviction won’t help to persuade when people disagree Science Daily (December 16, 2019) PDF VERSION
- This Brain Region Lights Up When People Display Confirmation Bias Discover (December 16, 2019) PDF VERSION
- Here’s what happens in the brain when we disagree The Spectator (December 20, 2019) PDF VERSION
- Why is it so difficult to make people change their minds?, Medical News Today (December 18, 2019) PDF VERSION
- How to change you and your bank balance, Weekend Switzer (October 4, 2019) PDF VERSION
- Optimism, pessimism-What about a hopeful pessimist, Thrive Global (September 9, 2019) PDF VERSION
- People’s motivations bias how they gather information ScienceDaily (June 27, 2019) PDF VERSION
- The way to change anti-vaccine campaigners’ minds, The Spectator (March 14, 2019) PDF VERSION
- Here’s how to get everyone to adopt the planetary health diet, Wired (January 19, 2019) PDF VERSION
- 5 types of climate change deniers, and how to change their minds, Big Think (January 14, 2019) PDF VERSION
- What happens in your brain when you change your mind, Open Democracy (January 4, 2019) PDF VERSION
- How Political Polarization Breeds Ignorance, Pacific Standard (October 24, 2018) PDF VERSION
- New in Paperback, The New York Times (October 12, 2018) PDF VERSION
- Three titles honoured in the Society’s 2018 Book Award, British Psychological Society (October 2, 2018) PDF VERSION
- Kavanaugh Or Ford? Why It’s So Hard To Read The Body Language Of A Liar, Forbes (September 29, 2018) PDF VERSION
- The science behind Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony to Senate judiciary committee, East Bay Times (September 27, 2018) PDF VERSION
- Comprehensive Study Shows Americans Remain Optimistic in Troubled Times, PR Newswire (September 13, 2018) PDF VERSION
- Return to Reason: The Science of Thought, Scientific American (September 3, 2018) PDF VERSION
- What is the optimism bias? Study reveals best time to break bad news, Newsweek (August 6, 2018) PDF VERSION
- How to futureproof your kids, The Telegraph (June 30, 2018) PDF VERSION
- Your brain constantly shuffles between ‘ignorance is bliss’ and ‘thirst for knowledge’ states, International Business Times (June 27, 2018) PDF VERSION
- How your brain decides between knowledge and ignorance, Science Daily (June 25, 2018) PDF VERSION
- Five titles have been shortlisted for our book award, The British Psychological Society (June 16, 2018) PDF VERSION
- Should we trust people whose politics differ from ours? The Guardian (June 15, 2018) PDF VERSION
- Why Optimists Make More Money Than Pessimists, NAV (June 6, 2018) PDF VERSION
- Trump’s not a liar. He’s a madman, The Washington Post (May 29, 2018) PDF VERSION
- Would you go to a Republican doctor? The New York Times (May 24, 2018) PDF VERSION
- Lying seems to be getting worse. Psychology suggests there’s a reason why, MSNBC (May 23, 2018) PDF VERSION
- How your mind, under stress, gets better at processing bad news, aeon (May 15, 2018) PDF VERSION
- Changing your mind has never been easy. But we must start listening again, The Guardian (February 25, 2018) PDF VERSION
- Book Review: The Influential Mind, Psych Central (December 22, 2017) PDF VERSION
- 5 Great Business Psychology Books from 2017, Inc. (December 18, 2017) PDF VERSION
- The Must-Read Brain Books of 2017, Forbes (December 18, 2017) PDF VERSION
- 2017 Review: The 10 Best Event Sessions, The Holmes Report (December 17, 2017) PDF VERSION
- Our Favorite Books of 2017, Greater Good at UC Berkeley (December 8, 2017) PDF VERSION
- What to read over the holidays, Stanford Business (December 5, 2017) PDF VERSION
- Best political books of 2017, The Times (November 25, 2017) PDF VERSION
- These 7 TED talks have completely changed how I make decisions, Business Insider (November 23, 2017) PDF VERSION
- Understanding the Influential Mind, Scientific American (September 27, 2017) PDF VERSION
- What motivates employees more, rewards or punishments? Harvard Business Review (September 26, 2017) PDF VERSION
- Why Hard Facts Aren’t Enough to Alter Our Beliefs, NBC News (September 25, 2017) PDF VERSION
- How Our Desires Shape Our Beliefs, Thrive Global (September 22, 2017) PDF VERSION
- How We Make Up Our Minds, The New York Times (September 22, 2017) PDF VERSION
- Emotion, the Great Manipulator, Time (September 21, 2017) PDF VERSION
- Why People Can’t Agree on Basic Facts, Time (September 19, 2017) PDF VERSION
- In the Battle to Change People’s Minds, Desires Come Before Facts, Wired (September 17, 2017) PDF VERSION
- Why don’t facts matter?, CNN (September 14, 2017) PDF VERSION
- Want to change minds? Try this, CNN (September 14, 2017) PDF VERSION
- What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others, Psychotherapy Networker (September 11, 2017) PDF VERSION
- How our Desires Shape Our Beliefs, The Guardian (August 27, 2017) PDF VERSION
- The Truth Is, Lying Might Not Be So Bad, KUOW (March 28, 2017) PDF VERSION
- Why Piling On Facts May Not Help In The Battle Against Fake News, KRCC (March 14, 2017) PDF VERSION
- Lying gets easier on the brain the more you do it, Quartz (March 9, 2017) PDF VERSION
- Optimism v pessimism in 2017: the comedian and the psychologist debate, The Guardian (January 2, 2017) PDF VERSION
- Psychological research that helps explain the election, The New Yorker (December 25, 2016) PDF VERSION
- 11 TED Talks that show how weird the human mind really is , Science Alert (December 19, 2016) PDF VERSION
- How lying changes your brain in just a short period of time, Huffington Post (October 26, 2016) PDF VERSION
- Little white lies the start of ‘slippery slope’, scientists find, The Australian
- Liars in Making Small lies tune your brain to be dishonest, The Times of India (October 26, 2016) PDF VERSION
- Lies breed lies: Brain may get desensitized to dishonesty, Fox News (October 26, 2016) PDF VERSION
- How little lies lead to bigger lies, CBS News (October 25, 2016) PDF VERSION
- Lying Appears to Make It Easier to Tell More Lies, Vice (October 25, 2016) PDF VERSION
- The Fascinating Reason Why Liars Keep On Lying, Huffington Post (October 24, 2016) PDF VERSION
- Why Big Liars Often Start Out as Small Ones, New York Times (October 24, 2016) PDF VERSION
- From porkies to whoppers: over time lies may desensitise brain to dishonesty, The Guardian (October 24, 2016) PDF VERSION
- Why being dishonest is a slippery slope, The Conversation (October 24, 2016) PDF VERSION
- Lying feels bad at first but our brains soon adapt to deceiving, New Scientist (October 24, 2016) PDF VERSION
- The more we lie, the easier it is for our brains to be increasingly more deceitful, Wired (October 24, 2016) PDF VERSION
- Slippery slope: Study finds little lies lead to bigger ones, Associated Press (October 24, 2016) PDF VERSION
- From Fibs to Fraud: Why Lying Is a Slippery Slope, Discover Magazine (October 24, 2016) PDF VERSION
- Little white lies make it easier to go on and tell big whoppers, The Telegraph (October 24, 2016) PDF VERSION
- Whenever you lie, your brain adjusts to make telling bigger whoppers study finds, The Independent (October 24, 2016) PDF VERSION
- Neuroscientists show how tiny fibs snowball into big lies, LA Times (October 24, 2016) PDF VERSION
- Slipper Slope: Study finds little lies lead to bigger ones, San Francisco Chronicle (October 24, 2016) PDF VERSION
- Brain study shows how small lies grow into whoppers, Stat (October 24, 2016) PDF VERSION
- Lying may be your brain’s fault, honestly, CNN (October 24, 2016) PDF VERSION
- Telling white lies could encourage people to tell bigger fibs in the future, The Sunday Express (October 24, 2016) PDF VERSION
- Little white lies are not as innocent as you think: over time, small fibs may desensitize our brains to dishonesty, The Daily Mail (October 24, 2016) PDF VERSION
- Little white lies help the brain prepare for telling whopping fibs, study reveals, The Mirror (October 24, 2016) PDF VERSION
- Lies Breed Lies: Brain May Grow Desensitized to Dishonesty, Live Science (October 24, 2016) PDF VERSION
- How Small Fibs Lead To Big Lies, NPR (October 24, 2016) PDF VERSION
- Telling a lie makes way for the brain to keep lying, PBS (October 24, 2016) PDF VERSION
- How do politicians get so comfortable with lying? One theory: practice, Vox (October 24, 2016) PDF VERSION
- Positive thinking can make you too lazy to meet your goals, BBC – Capital (October 12, 2016) PDF VERSION
- Genomes, good news, and you, MIT News (September 8, 2016) PDF VERSION
- Why facts don’t unify us, NY Times (September 2, 2016) PDF VERSION
- China is the only country that’s remotely optimistic about the future, Tech Insider (July 5, 2016) PDF VERSION
- Recognizing the Role of Optimism Bias in Case Evaluation, Lexology (June 1, 2016) PDF VERSION
- Why do we ignore obvious dangers?, Observer (May 26, 2016) PDF VERSION
- Excessive Optimism Played a Big Role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Disaster, Fox News (May 4, 2016) PDF VERSION
- 6 TED Talks You Should Watch To Up Your Mindset, Forbes (March 30, 2016) PDF VERSION
- Why we’re hard-wired for hope, Arab News (March 2, 2016) PDF VERSION
- 50 Must-Read Psychology Books, Sparring Mind (October 10, 2015) PDF VERSION
- Risk Factor: The Happy Pill, Financial Chronicle (August 07, 2015) PDF VERSION
- 9 TED Talks that will teach you how your mind works, Business Insider (July 20, 2015) PDF VERSION
- Here’s the Root of Our Financial Problems, Time Magazine (July 6, 2015) PDF VERSION
- 7 Lessons on How to Hack Your Own Brain, Time Magazine (July 1, 2015) PDF VERSION
- Motley Fool: Nine thoughts about investing and the economy, Sydney Morning Herald (February 3, 2015) PDF VERSION
- The Economic Power of Positive Thinking, Bloomberg Buisnessweek (February 2, 2015) PDF VERSION
- Planning for optimism bias in Utah, Herald (January 06, 2015) PDF VERSION
- The Resilient Person’s DNA, Forbes (June 04, 2014) PDF VERSION
- Wired Health: how do we harness self-monitored health data, Medical News Today (April 30, 2014) PDF VERSION
- Positivity not scaremongering could help you lose weight, Wired (April 29, 2014) PDF VERSION
- Positive thinking can trip into costly delusion, HeraldNet (April 12, 2014) PDF VERSION
- Want A Better Life? Be An Optimist – With a Twist, Forbes (March 17, 2014) PDF VERSION
- Cyber Security Risk: Perception vs. Reality in Corporate America, Wired (March 10, 2014) PDF VERSION
- Would you rather have time or money?, Forbes (December 20, 2013) PDF VERSION
- Psychology: Good and bad news on the adolescent brain, Nature (October 30, 2013) PDF VERSION
- Why We Make Bad Decisions, New York Times (October 19, 2013) PDF VERSION
- In Defence of Brain Rotting Cliches and Scientific Myths, The Guardian (October 15, 2013) PDF VERSION
- Young People Resist Bad News, Nature (September 26, 2013) PDF VERSION
- Youngsters Learn More From Good News Than Dire Warnings, Science World Report (September 22, 2013) PDF VERSION
- Even When Told True Risks, Kids Often Misjudge Them, NPR (September 10, 2013) PDF VERSION
- New Play Development: Death by Talkback, Huffington Post (March 25, 2013) PDF VERSION
- Your Child’s Fat, Mine’s Fine: Rose-Colored Glasses and the Obesity Epidemic, National Public Radio Health News (March 4, 2013) PDF VERSION
- January’s Stock Temptation, New York Times (January 1, 2013) PDF VERSION
- Why humans look on the bright side, Sydney Morning Herald (January 1, 2013) PDF VERSION
- Optimism bias: Why the young and the old tend to look on the bright side, Washington Post (December 31, 2012) PDF VERSION
- Resolutions: So Irresistible, So Hard to Keep, Wall Street Journal (December 17, 2012) PDF VERSION
- Why We’re Born Optimists, and Why That’s Good, The Atlantic (December 13, 2012) PDF VERSION
- How happiness changes with age, BBC (December 4, 2012) PDF VERSION
- How the brain filters bad news, The Guardian (September 25, 2012) PDF VERSION
- Removing the Optimism Bias, The Scientist (September 24, 2012) PDF VERSION
- Researchers identify brain region that generates optimism bias, Wired(September 26, 2012) PDF VERSION
- Optimistic Investors need to get real, FT (August 24 2012) PDF VERSION
- Why we fool ourselves into optimism, CNN (June 27, 2012) PDF VERSION
- Neural Responses Reveal Our Optimistic Bent, Scientific American (April 10, 2012) PDF VERSION
- Why your brain always looks on the bright side, Daily Mail (Jan 06, 2012) PDF VERSION
- The optimism bias: reasons to be cheerful (interview), The Guardian (Jan 1, 2012) PDF VERSION
- The optimism bias (book extract), The Guardian (Jan 1, 2012) PDF VERSION
- Brain Imaging Reveals Why Optimists Are The Way They Are, Huffington Post(Oct 11, 2011) PDF VERSION
- Brain ‘rejects negative thoughts’, BBC (Oct 9, 2011) PDF VERSION
- Blame ‘Faulty’ Frontal Lobe Function for Undying Optimism in Face of Reality, Science Daily (Oct 9, 2011) PDF VERSION
- Optimism is (still) in, Forbes (July 13, 2011) PDF VERSION
- Cheer up, you’re really an optimist, Toronto Star (July 8, 2011) PDF VERSION
- The Human Brain: Optimism Bias, Examiner (July 7, 2011) PDF VERSION
- Illusions and reality, Time (June 6, 2011) PDF VERSION
- Morning Links: Squid Watch, The Wall Street Journal (May 31, 2011) PDF VERSION
- The Optimism Bias, TIME magazine (May 28, 2011) PDF VERSION
- Major Delusions, New York Times (May 14, 2011) PDF VERSION
- The ups of being down, The Sunday Times (July, 2009)
- Except in one career, our brains seem built for optimism, The Wall Street Journal(Nov 9, 2007) PDF VERSION
- Optimism lights up a brain part, LA Times (Oct 29, 2007) PDF VERSION
- This is Your Brain on Optimism, Newsweek (Oct 24, 2007) PDF VERSION
- Brain regions responsible for optimism located, Reuters (Oct 24, 2007) PDF VERSION
- Source of ‘optimism’ found in the brain, NewScientist (Oct 24, 2007) PDF VERSION
- Dopamine levels in brain ‘influence decision making’, BBC News (Jan 8, 2010) PDF VERSION
- Can Dopamine Make Your Future Look Brighter?, Time Magazine (Nov 27, 2009) PDF VERSION
- Scientist identify brain regions that help us make choices, The Telegraph (Mar 27, 2009) PDF VERSION
- Thanks for the memories, PsychPost (1 July, 2011) PDF VERSION
- 9/11 memroies reveal how flashbulb memories are made in the brain, Discover Magazine (14 Oct, 2008) PDF VERSION
- Report Links 9/11 Memories to Proximity, Washington Post (Dec 18, 2006) (The Associated Press) PDF VERSION
Online Videos (selected)
*best viewed in Chrome/Firefox
Talks at Google - Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
Davos Annual Meeting, 2024 - How to Prevent an Anxious Generation
The Diary Of A CEO (2)
The Diary Of A CEO
TedX Talk
How people decide what they want to know
Tackling disinformation with behavioural science
European Parliament - Fact Checking in the EU
Big Think - How to cut through confirmation bias
World Economic Forum, Davos
Talks at Google
Optimal Optimism - animated short movie
WIRED Health
TED talk
RSA talk
Redes documentary on optimism
Interview with Tali Sharot
Documentaries and TV
- BBC Breakfast (BBC, 2024)
- They’re Lying to You, Here’s What You Can do About it. (Johnny Harris, 2024)
- The Agenda: Are We Wired to Deny Climate Change? (TVO Today, 2022)
- Our Brain (ABC Australia) 2022
- Climate: My Brain is an Ostrich (ARTE) 2022
- Secrets of the Brain – Lying (Insight TV)
- Imprescindibles (RTVE, 2020)
- The Doctors (CBS, 2020)
- CNN Special Report (CNN, 2019)
- MSNBC Live (MSNBC, 2018)
- Smerconish (CNN, 2018)
- Channel 10, Israel (2018)
- The Today Show (NBC, 2017)
- Global Business (CGTN America, 2017)
- The One Show (BBC, 2016)
- Power Lunch (CNBC, 2015)
- The Today Show (NBC, 2015)
- Redesign My Brain (ABC, 2015)
- Dishonesty – The Truth About Lies (CNBC & Salty Productions, 2015)
- How to be happy (RTÉ One, 2014)
- Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman. Reality Check: Is our Universe Real? Season 4, E8 (The Science Channel, 2013)
- Israel Night News (2013)
- Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman. What Makes Us Who We Are? Season 3, E4 (The Science Channel, 2012)
- Horizon: Out of Control (BBC2, 2012)
- Dara O Briain’s Science Club, Episode 1: Reproduction (BBC, 2012)
- Dara O Briain’s Science Club, Episode 3: Extinction (BBC, 2012)
- Dara O Briain’s Science Club, Episode 4: Space (BBC, 2012)
- Dara O Briain’s Science Club, Episode 5: Brain (BBC, 2012)
- Dara O Briain’s Science Club, Episode 6: Music (BBC, 2013)
- Redes, (RTVE, 2012)
- The Daily Rundown (2011)
Radio and Podcasts (selected)
- 10% Happier with Dan Harris . Sep 16, 2024.
- The Mel Robbins Podcast (part II) July 17, 2024.
- Unsiloed. July 17, 2024
- Life Kit, NPR. June 26, 2024
- Hidden Brain. June 24,2024
- Inner Cosmos with David Eagelman. June 24, 2024
- Nudge Podcast. June 17, 2024
- NPR Life Kit. June 11, 2024
- The Mel Robbins Podcast (part I) May 30, 2024.
- Reasons to be cheerful with Ed Miliband & Geoff Lloyd, April 2, 2024.
- Next Big Idea Club, March 21, 2024.
- Clear and Vivid with Alan Alda, March 11, 2024.
- Choiceology with Katy Milkman March 11, 2024.
- Consumer Behavioral Lab, March 5, 2024.
- The Michael Shermer Show, Feb 28th, 2024.
- Nudge Podcast, Feb 26, 2024.
- Guardian Weekend Podcast, Feb 24, 2024.
- The Adversity Advantage with Doug Bopst. Jan 25, 2024
- Growth minds with Sean Kim. Jan 30, 2024.
- Becoming Your Best. Jan 30, 2024.
- The Diary of a CEO, Nov, 2023.
- Crowd science, BBC, Nov 20th, 2023.
- Life Kit, NPR, August 22th, 2023.
- Young and Profiting, July 31th, 2023.
- The Alizee Yeezy Show, July 9th, 2023.
- Woman’s hour. BBC, May 29th, 2023.
- The Flip Side with Paris Lees. BBC, 2023.
- On Point, NPR, January 18th, 2023.
- The Diary of a CEO, January, 2023.
- Plucking Up with Liz Bohannon, November, 2022.
- Capital Allocators with Ted Seides. 2022
- Politics on the Couch, February 27th 2021.
- Being Well Podcast, 2021
- Should we be optimistic? LSE IQ, February 2nd 2021.
- The Age of Denial (Episode 2). BBC Radio 4, March 15th 2019.
- The Age of Denial (Episode 1). BBC Radio 4, March 14th 2019.
- The Jordan Harbinger Show, March 14th, 2018.
- The Tyranny of Story (Episode 2) BBC Radio 4, December 15th 2018.
- The Tyranny of Story (Episode 1) BBC Radio 4, December 8th 2018.
- The Michael Shermer Show, August 28th, 2018.
- Science Weekly podcast The Guardian, May 25th 2018.
- BBC Start The Week BBC Radio 4, February 19th 2018.
- Why Do We Follow the Crowd? BBC World Service, March 20th 2018.
- Freakonomics, March 7th 2018.
- Choiceology, March 2018.
- Free Thinking BBC Radio 3.
- The Joy of Bad Films BBC Radio 3, December 6th 2017.
- Morning Edition, NPR, March 28th 2017.
- The Hidden Brain, NPR, March 14th 2017.
- TED Radio Hour, NPR, May 6th 2016.
- Optimism – Our Enemy BBC Radio 4, April 2nd 2016.
- Health News, NPR, March 4th 2013.