Search
Latest Videos
A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
4mins
As overly “creative” memoirists continue to generate scandal, Robert Stone (“Prime Green”) isn’t surprised: writing about yourself, he says, is much like creating any other fictional character.
4mins
Robert Stone’s experience as a war correspondent is forever linked in his mind with a haunting passage from “King Lear.”
4mins
The “Dog Soldiers” author confesses to missing the psychedelic experience of the ‘60s, which was “strange and very frightening” but also yielded some deeper truths about reality.
5mins
As a boy, Robert Stone loved tales of “romantic adventure.” In the Navy he got to experience one himself, as a member of the Antarctic expedition “Operation Deep Freeze III.”
3mins
A developmental psychologist explains the surprising cognitive effect of having friends near.
2mins
The Temple professor initially believed that early puberty caused conflict between girls and their parents. Then he was “blown away” when his research showed the reverse connection: family conflict led […]
1mins
According to the renowned developmental psychologist, the fundamental traits for success are manifest at every stage of development.
3mins
A developmental psychologist explains the latest findings into the nature vs. nurture debate, highlighting the need to break down the false dichotomy between genes and the environment.
3mins
For teens, a tendency toward dangerous behavior is hard-wired into the brain. A developmental psychologist explains.
4mins
Studies almost unanimously show that unstructured, unsupervised time is a recipe for disaster for adolescents in terms of risk and reckless behavior. So what steps can be taken to curb […]
5mins
The ‘just don’t do it’ approach to teen prevention programs, which underlies programs from DARE to Driver’s Ed, relies on the fallacious notion that adolescent behavior is based on knowledge […]
2mins
A developmental psychologist explains the three key measures that education reform must achieve.
9mins
A psychologist explains the latest research into education disparity.
4mins
A psychologist explains a study into how racial associations affect expectations of guilt.
An expert in adolescent psychology outlines the main features of bad parenting.
4mins
Juvenile recidivism is far from inevitable, it’s just a matter of employing techniques that actually work.
3mins
Over the last several years, teenagers have been subject to increasingly severe sentencing. A psychologist explains why this justice system reflects a major misunderstanding of the adolescent brain.
47mins
A conversation with the Temple University psychologist.
4mins
The chairman of One Laptop per Child has also founded MIT’s Media Lab, invested in Web startups, and written a column for Wired. Which undertaking was the hardest?