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15 Oct Pricing effect: Why a higher price tag makes wine taste better. Why are we all so stupid?

Posted at 07:25h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Business Insider, Economics, Non Guided, North America, Partial Lesson Plan, Popular Culture, Psychology, Science

Pricing effect means using price as a signal for value or quality. It turns out, a higher price tag makes wine taste better because our brains tell us so. A variety of people taste different wines and are tested on their tasting and pricing values!...

15 Oct ANCHORING EFFECT: GUESSING HOW MANY JELLY BEANS ARE IN A JAR | WHY ARE WE ALL SO STUPID?

Posted at 07:21h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Business Insider, Economics, Funny, Non Guided, North America, Partial Lesson Plan, Problem Solving, Psychology, Science

Anchoring effect is our tendency to rely too much on the first piece of information. Knowing about the anchoring effect may help you better negotiate a pay raise ...

15 Oct Why Are We So Attached To Our Things?

Posted at 07:04h in B1 - Intermediate, Non Guided, North America, Partial Lesson Plan, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Psychology, TED ed

Any hoarders, "collectors" or celebrity memorabilia fans in the house? After witnessing the “violent rage” shown by babies whenever deprived of an item they considered their own, Jean Piaget – a founding father of child psychology – observed something profound about human nature: Our sense of...

29 Sep Your Genes Affect Your Education

Posted at 12:47h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Big Think, Environment, Management, North America, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Psychology, Science

Attempts to study inequality in society have to consider the impact of genetic inequality despite its controversiality, this video does just that! ...

29 Sep What is an Ad Hominem attack?

Posted at 11:54h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Funny, Management, North America, Politics, Popular Culture, Psychology, Wired

Be careful of how you behave, NOT what you say! You could be exposed to an Ad Hominem attack where words aren't heard but your personality and status ARE key!...

29 Sep What is we could refreeze the Arctic?

Posted at 11:23h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Economics, Environment, Management, North America, Other, Problem Solving, Science

The Arctic might soon become completely ice-free and when all of the ice is gone, the world won't be the same...

29 Sep This is why we can`t have nice things

Posted at 10:54h in Business, C1 - Advanced, Economics, Environment, Funny, Management, North America, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Science, Technology, Veritasium

An investigation into objects such as light bulbs, printers and phones and how the same products made today are not necessarily better...

29 Sep Think you have a «Type A» personality? Sorry, that`s fake news!

Posted at 10:30h in Australia, B2 - Upper-intermediate, Braincraft, C1 - Advanced, Environment, Funny, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Psychology, Science

Have you ever been classed as Type A or Type B personality? How did you react? This video discusses the side effects of labelling and where they actually originate from....

29 Sep The Future of Augmented Reality

Posted at 10:02h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Economics, Environment, Fashion, Management, North America, Other, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Science, Technology

Can enhanced versions of the real physical world using digital visual elements improve the way we learn? Various applications are presented to show the future of this type of technology and how it will affect our world. A useful topic to debate not only the future...

29 Sep How these Startups growth hacked their first customers

Posted at 09:40h in Business, C1 - Advanced, Economics, Management, North America, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Slidebean, Technology

In this video, the presenter shares a variety of stories to show how young founders and entrepreneurs have used their skills in hacking and solving problems to make money. From literal AIR BnB (air beds) and Dropbox, it's an insight to a fast intelligence to...