I was recently pointed to the Youtube channel Psychology in Seattle. I think it’s one of my favorites in a while.
I’m personally more interested in workspace psychology than relationship psychology, but my impression is that they share a lot of similarities.
Emotional intelligence gets a bit of a bad rap due to the fuzzy nature, but I’m convinced it’s one of the top few things for most people to get better at. I know lots of great researchers and engineers who repeat a bunch of repeated failure modes, and this causes severe organizational and personal problems as a result.
Emotional intelligence books and training typically seem quite poor to me. The alternative format here of “let’s just show you dozens of hours of people interacting with each other, and point out all the fixes they could make” seems much better than most books or lectures I’ve seen.
This Youtube series does an interesting job at that. There’s a whole bunch of “let’s watch this reality TV show, then give our take on it.” I’d be pretty excited about there being more things like this posted online, especially in other contexts.
Related, I think the potential of reality TV is fairly underrated in intellectual circles, but that’s a different story.
One of the things I love about entertainment is that much of it offers evidence about how humans behave in a wide variety of scenarios. This has gotten truer over time, at least within Anglophone media, with its trend towards realism and away from archetypes and morality plays. Yes, it’s not the best possible or most reliable evidence about how real humans behave in real situations and it’s a meme around here that you should be careful not to generalize from fictional evidence, but I also think it’s better than nothing (I don’t think reality TV is especially less fictional than other forms of entertainment with regards to how human behave, given its heavy use of editing and loose scripting to punch up situations for entertainment value).
You might also enjoy the channel “charisma on command” which has a similar format of finding youtube videos of charismatic and non-charismatic people, and seeing what they do and don’t do well.
I was recently pointed to the Youtube channel Psychology in Seattle. I think it’s one of my favorites in a while.
I’m personally more interested in workspace psychology than relationship psychology, but my impression is that they share a lot of similarities.
Emotional intelligence gets a bit of a bad rap due to the fuzzy nature, but I’m convinced it’s one of the top few things for most people to get better at. I know lots of great researchers and engineers who repeat a bunch of repeated failure modes, and this causes severe organizational and personal problems as a result.
Emotional intelligence books and training typically seem quite poor to me. The alternative format here of “let’s just show you dozens of hours of people interacting with each other, and point out all the fixes they could make” seems much better than most books or lectures I’ve seen.
This Youtube series does an interesting job at that. There’s a whole bunch of “let’s watch this reality TV show, then give our take on it.” I’d be pretty excited about there being more things like this posted online, especially in other contexts.
Related, I think the potential of reality TV is fairly underrated in intellectual circles, but that’s a different story.
https://www.youtube.com/user/PsychologyInSeattle?fbclid=IwAR3Ux63X0aBK0CEwc8yPyjsFJ2EKQ2aSMs1XOjUOgaFqlguwz6Fxul2ExJw
One of the things I love about entertainment is that much of it offers evidence about how humans behave in a wide variety of scenarios. This has gotten truer over time, at least within Anglophone media, with its trend towards realism and away from archetypes and morality plays. Yes, it’s not the best possible or most reliable evidence about how real humans behave in real situations and it’s a meme around here that you should be careful not to generalize from fictional evidence, but I also think it’s better than nothing (I don’t think reality TV is especially less fictional than other forms of entertainment with regards to how human behave, given its heavy use of editing and loose scripting to punch up situations for entertainment value).
Nothing is a low bar though. :)
You might also enjoy the channel “charisma on command” which has a similar format of finding youtube videos of charismatic and non-charismatic people, and seeing what they do and don’t do well.
Thanks! I’ll check it out.
Novel and obviously some good ideas/directions. Thanks.