There are 10 videos in this series. (Video 9 is optional)
Video 1: Introducing the topic of the social, requires that we recognise that our construal of the psychological and of the social are not independent of one another
Video 2: We question the assumption that brain activity is to be understood as “about” a single person and their experiences
Video 3: We meet two individualistic accounts of social cognition: Theory Theory and Simulation Theory
Video 4: We meet a very different approach to our social being in Participatory Sensemaking, which is a concept developed within the strongly biological enactive approach to cognition.
Video 5: Revision. We revisit the Cooperative Eye Hypothesis and its implications for how we understand the role of the hands, the eyes and the voice in human interpersonal coordination
Video 6: We begin a review of some problematic studies from the field of Social Psychology, beginning with the work of Harry Harlow. In each case, we are interested in the social fears and uncertainties that motivated each study.
Video 7: We meet the infamous experiments by Stanley Milgram on obedience and authority
Video 8: We discuss the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment (which was not an experiment)
Video 9: (This video is optional). The last social psychology experiment we will look at gave rise to the notion of Dunbar’s Number. Once more, things did not go well.
Video 10: We wrap up by considering an alternative route to modelling phenomena in the social domain: collective dynamics