Brain Games - Season 4

Brain Games - Season 4

Season 4

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DatesJul 14, 2014 - Aug 25, 2014
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Episodes

Compassion
Season 4Episode 145 min

Compassion

Join host Jason Silva in interactive games and experiments to explore your brain's capacity for compassion. Discover if you were born naughty or nice and explore the chances of finding a psychopath among your family and friends.

Jul 14, 2014
Addiction
Season 4Episode 245 min

Addiction

Learn all about addictions and why some can actually be good for you. Find out why you can't stop checking your phone and why that awful pop song gets stuck in your head. And, discover one of the most addictive sounds in the world.

Jul 14, 2014
Language
Season 4Episode 345 min

Language

Discover how language is the closest thing humans have to telepathy and how you communicate without words every day. Guest Sri Sarma, a biomedical-engineer from John Hopkins University, leads a discovery of language and how humans create meaning.

Jul 21, 2014
Risk
Season 4Episode 445 min

Risk

Nearly every choice you make involves some calculated risk. Explore how your brain evaluates risk in everyday situations and discover why we're all born as risk-takers. Learn to assess risk like your life depends on it, because it does.

Jul 21, 2014
Battle of the Sexes 2
Season 4Episode 545 min

Battle of the Sexes 2

 Find out how the male brain and female brain differ when they are pitted against each other in games and experiments. Learn which gender is victorious in the battle of the sexes. 

Jul 28, 2014
Superstitions
Season 4Episode 645 min

Superstitions

 Learn about your superstition and why humans believe in things that have no basis in reality. Discover why your brain may be hardwired to be superstitious and if it's possible to read minds. 

Jul 28, 2014
Food
Season 4Episode 745 min

Food

 Discover the brain's role in your choice of food and what makes you hungry. Through interactive games and experiments, you will learn why you overeat and whether taking comfort in comfort food is good for you. 

Aug 4, 2014
Anger
Season 4Episode 845 min

Anger

What if getting angry had less to do with what's going on around you, and more to do with what's going on inside your brain? Explore why your brain gets angry and what you can do about it.

Aug 11, 2014
Patterns
Season 4Episode 945 min

Patterns

Have you ever noticed that life is a series of routines, done in the same order, day after day? Whether you realize it or not, your daily routine is really a pattern. Learn how, when processing the world, your brain is always filling in the blanks.

Aug 18, 2014
Intuition
Season 4Episode 1045 min

Intuition

The power of intuition--when you know something to be true without knowing why--is one of the mind's greatest mysteries. Test your intuition and learn how your brain makes decisions without you having to think about it.

Aug 25, 2014

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