Videos

Higher Values Project

Simone Schnall in conversation with Robert Lawrence Kuhn - Closer To Truth PBS series

The Institute of Art and Ideas - Panel debates

TEDx talk - How your bodily state affects your perception

This TEDx Talk describes some of our work on the perception of the physical environment. In brief, we find that people’s current bodily and emotional state changes how they see the world.

Ways of Seeing - the Body as Metaphor - Simone Schnall in conversation with Jasmin Vardimon

The Charity People United has been organising a series of so-called “Living Room” events, in which they bring together scientists and artists in an informal setting with a small audience. This event was called “Ways of Seeing – the Body as Metaphor” and featured dancer and choreographer Jasmin Vardimon in conversation with Simone Schnall. Jasmin’s work is known for its visually stunning and gravity defying choreography and its exploration of the human experience offering the viewer multiple perspectives.

A Sense of Cleanliness

Here is a conversation with Edge.org with some thoughts on the role of cleanliness in conceptions and experiences of morality. It relates to our paper on the influence of cleanliness on moral judgment, and explores some general themes of how morality has been studied recently, and how the field has been adopting more and more an approach to viewing morality as driven by gut feelings and intuitions rather than rational consideration.