13 - Why Are People Different?: Differences

Update: 2014-03-21

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Why are people different from one another? This lecture addresses this question by reviewing the latest theories and research in psychology on two traits in particular: personality and intelligence. Students will hear about how these traits are measured, why they may differ across individuals and groups, and whether they are influenced at all by one's genes, parents or environment.

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19 - What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part II

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18 - What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part I

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17 - A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part II; Some Mysteries: Sleep, Dreams, and Laughter

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16 - A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part I

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15 - A Person in the World of People: Morality

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14 - What Motivates Us: Sex

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13 - Why Are People Different?: Differences

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12 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part II

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11 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part I

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10 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Evolution and Rationality

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09 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Love

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08 - Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Vision and Memory (cont.)

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07 - Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Language (cont.); Vision and Memory

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06 - How Do We Communicate?: Language in the Brain, Mouth and the Hands

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05 - What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought

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04 - Foundations: Skinner

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03 - Foundations: Freud

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02 - Foundations: This is Your Brain

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01 - Introduction

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13 - Why Are People Different?: Differences

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13 - Why Are People Different?: Differences

Paul Bloom

13 - Why Are People Different?: Differences