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Hacking Your Mind

Hacking Your Mind

Hacking Your Mind

Follow host, Jacob Ward, (The TODAY Show), from the farthest corners of the globe to the inside of your mind as he sets out to discover we are not who we think we are. We imagine our conscious minds make most decisions, but in reality we go through much of our lives on “autopilot”. And marketers and social media companies rely on it. Hacking Your Mind offers you an autopilot owner’s manual.

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Hacking Your Mind
0:30
Find out why it's easy for others to hack into your mind and how to defend yourself.
What New Discoveries Are Being Made In Behavioral Science?
4:23
Discover how people you’ve never met influence your behavior and how you influence theirs.
How Is This Dog Smarter Than This Boy?
4:30
Discover what dogs know that people don’t.
Why Can't We All Get Along?
3:33
Watch kids in real time automatically divide people into “us” and “them”.
What Do People And Monkeys Have In Common?
3:28
Discover how groups of monkeys AND of people appear hard wired to distrust other groups.
What Did Scientists' 'Rise Of  Trump' Study Reveal?
4:34
Discover the easiest way for a politician to change how people vote.
How Do Police Treat Black And White People Differently?
4:51
See the almost automatic transformation in how cops behave when they stop a Black person.
How Can Police Overcome Their Biases?
2:29
See cops convince other cops that they really are biased.
How Do Governments Hack Your Mind?
4:30
A stunning Chinese government technique to get social media users to police their friends.
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