What makes stuff funny?
Who starred as Convict 13 in the 1920 silent film?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=M_CtTbZKBco
Who was the artist who created saucy seaside postcards and was prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act?
Which two entertainers played the parts of wartime pilots? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGp4DvFEgh8&ab_channel=ComicRelief%3ARedNoseDay
There’s more to seeing than meets the eye
What’s the name of the distorted room that fools depth and distance perception? (And how do I make one?) https://www.rigb.org/learning/activities-and-resources/small-or-far-away
What’s the moon illusion?
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/1191/the-moon-illusion-why-does-the-moon-look-so-big-sometimes/
How does the Margaret Thatcher illusion work? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatcher_effect
Techniques of Persuasion
Which product is associated with J.S.Bach’s Air on a G string? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIckHmwZAeI&ab_channel=olliedan
Which product was advertised using a Millais painting?
Which product is ‘reassuringly expensive’? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms8eaSeMkrY&ab_channel=TVAdvertArchive
A user’s guide to the brain
No questions here, but a link to a half hour video “Neuroanatomy made ridiculously simple”
Inside the mind of Charles Manson
Who was the actress murdered by members of Manson’s ‘family’? https://imdb.com/name/nm0001790
What was the connection between the Beach Boys’ drummer and Manson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Wilson#Contact_with_Manson
What was the connection between the Beatles and Manson? https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZZofonm6i_Y&ab_channel=OurLife
Can you tell if someone is lying?
Do polygraphs work?
https://bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45736631
Can you read facial expressions accurately? https://www.scienceofpeople.com/microexpressions
What does the autonomic nervous system do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPWEhl7gbu4&ab_channel=ProfessorDaveExplains
Eyewitness accounts
What is the book “Picking Cotton” about? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLGXrviy5Iw&ab_channel=books2009
Did you see the gorilla? https://youtube.com/watch?v=ON1goZRwO9o&ab_channel=BigThink
What might cause false memories? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB2OegI6wvI&ab_channel=TED
Personality
Which system of the brain did Eysenck propose underpins extraversion-introversion?
Theories of Personality: Hans Eysenck, Gordon Allport & Raymond Cattell
How did Franz Josef Gall think he could assess personality? http://scihi.org/franz-josef-gall-phrenology
What were Hippocrates’ four humours? https://www.thecolourworks.com/hippocrates-galen-the-four-humours
Good-bye Norma-Jeane
How did Emmeline Snively help Norma-Jeane? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgvA_4UuMx4
Who was James Dougherty? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z9OC7cNInU
The Misfits was Marilyn’s last completed film in 1961. Who directed her last film Somethings Got to Give?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something%27s_Got_to_Give
User’s guide to the brain
What do the lowest parts of the brain help regulate?
https://www.physio-pedia.com/Brainstem
What sort of behaviours are associated with the limbic system? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNs9ruzoTmI&ab_channel=NeuroscientificallyChallenged
Is there such a thing as a ‘mental illness”
Urban terrorist or bored rich girl?
What is Stockholm Syndrome? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riwHaBHnTi0
How did the Hearsts become so wealthy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst
Which group kidnapped Patty Hearst? https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2694406534
Bulldog or Black Dog?
Why was Churchill involved in the siege of Sidney Street in 1911
Who painted Churchill’s portrait, presented to him by Parliament on his 80th birthday? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfgEg2AP3gc&ab_channel=MiamiInternationalFineArts-MIFAMiami
What was the Commons debate about when Churchill made his first speech as Prime Minister? https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1940/may/13/his-majestys-government-1
Mad or Bad?
What was John George Haigh’s nickname? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lruuP8voSmw&ab_channel=Scotland%27sHistory
Between which years did Peter Sutcliffe commit the murders for which he was found guilty? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kMhnKX9xmI&ab_channel=BBCNews
What is the primary difference between a neurotic disorder and a psychotic disorder?
https://anzmh.asn.au/blog/uncategorized/neurosis-psychosis-difference
Phil Spector
What was the “Wall of Sound”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_Sound
What is the standard reference for classifying (so-called) mental illness?
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/24291-diagnostic-and-statistical-manual-dsm-5
Who were “The Wrecking Crew”?
Conspiracy theories
What has Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who died in 1940, got to do with the assasination of JFK in 1963?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_man_(JFK_assassination)
Why do people believe in conspiracy theories, according to Rob Brotherton, author of Suspicious Minds?
What does Daniel Kahneman mean by fast and slow thinking?
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