Social Influence

The Hospital That Didn't Care

Joel Mapp presents a special BBC investigation looking at how hundreds of patients died after what an inquiry called appalling suffering at Sta...

Episode 6 | The People Watchers

What is the psychology of queuing? Do people perform better at sport if they are given encouragement? And how long does it take to learn how ...

Joseph Henrich - Professor of Evolutionary Biology | HARDtalk

Is genetics or cultural conditioning the key to understanding human evolution? Stephen Sackur speaks to Profess...

What effect does an audience have on performance? | Inside Culture

Sports personalities discuss the positive and negative effect of audience on performance.

Can the power of positive thought turn ballerinas into basketball players? | The People Watchers

An experiment showing how powerful words and 'pep talk' can be to motivate i...

Audiences and Spectacle | Inside Culture

Do audiences matter, and what is their role? Mary talks to sports stars about how the loss of the crowd affects their performance, a...

You Do As You Are Told | Horizon

Jonathan Miller introduces a 1973 episode of Horizon, which documents the results of Stanley Milgram's study on Obedience. In an endpiece, J...

Real footage from Milgram's study | Horizon

Milgram discusses his famous obedience experiment alongside actual footage from the study.

The Heist

Derren Brown recruits participants to attend a ''motivational seminar'' where he manipulates them into robbing a security van in broad daylight. A reenactment of a...

What were Milgram's conclusions? | Horizon

Milgram discusses the conclusions and outcomes from his famous obedience study.

How did Milgram's participants feel? | The Brain: A Secret History

Dr Michael Mosley speaks to a participant from the original Milgram study to find out how they felt about ...

03: Broken Brains | The Brain: A Secret History

Michael Mosley ends his look at the history of experimental psychology by exploring how experiments on abnormal brains can re...

01: Mind Control | The Brain: A Secret History

Michael Mosley traces the sinister ways science has been used to try to control our minds, finding that its pursuit has led to...

02: Emotions | The Brain: A Secret History

Dr Michael Mosley investigates how scientists have struggled to understand that most irrational and deeply complex part of our min...

Episode 6 | The People Watchers

What is the psychology of queuing? Do people perform better at sport if they are given encouragement? And how long does it take to learn how ...

S11E01: Changing Minds | Child of Our Time

Professor Robert Winston and professor Tanya Byron discover how teenagers' changing brains means that what they choose to do at si...

Case Study: Kitty Genovese | Mind Changers

When a young woman was brutally killed in an attack in New York in 1964, not one of 38 witnesses called for help. The case led to ...

What happened to Kitty Genovese? | Mind Changers

Details about the murder of Kitty Genovese and the 38 witnesses who did not intervene or call for help.

The bystander effect | Mind Changers

The bystander effect and how fewer people than you might think intervene when they witness a crime taking place.

The Mystery of the Teenage Brain | The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry

Hannah and Adam investigate the strange goings on in the bodies and brains of teens as they embark o...

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on teenage brains | The Life Scientific

Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore talks to Jim Al-Khalili about her research on the developing teenage brain.

S01E02 | The Human Zoo

Michael Blastland explores the way human beings think, behave and make decisions. The status quo bias - do you prefer things, whether personal or poli...

04: The Watchful Web | The History Of Surveillance

Looks at how, when you surf the net or use a credit card, you leave a data trail as revealing as an animal’s spoor, compri...

Can the power of positive thought turn ballerinas into basketball players? | The People Watchers

An experiment showing how powerful words and 'pep talk' can be to motivate i...

Risk taking and stigma | The Life Scientific

Listen to the important work being carried out on teenage brain development and risk taking, especially the efforts needed to re...

The Slumber Games | The Investigation

BBC Scotland investigates new research suggesting that modern technology is disrupting teenagers' body clocks, resulting in poor health...

Teenage Brain | The Infinite Monkey Cage

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by Rory Bremner, Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Prof Matthew Cobb to discover the science behind...

Playing the Game: Taking Risks | The Learning Zone

Program about taking risks with children, growing up, learning when to develop and when to encourage the child to ''take a...

06: Who Will We Be?

Dr Eagleman journeys into the future, and asks what's next for the human brain and for our species.

05: Why Do I Need You?

This episode looks at how the human brain relies on other brains to thrive and survive.