I just got an ad in Spanish. I have no idea what the fuck they were talking about but I'm sold.

Summary 2:06 Myth: using our memory we can access details of exactly what happened 2:54 Reality: the fallibility of memory is much greater than we think 7:26 Myth: we should obey people in a position of authority 7:47 Reality: authority influences us to obey because it's a learned script 10:08 Myth: you have to talk through your childhood problems 10:17 Reality: the best thing to do is move on from it 11:30 Myth: if you're angry punch a pillow 11:43 Reality: actually you get addicted to having sessions of anger 13:34 Myth: when someone is harmed, no one in society helps - are we all monsters? 15:00 Reality: there is diffusion of responsibility: the more people present, the less likely any one person will help Lightning Round: 19:37 Five stages of grief -> Myth 20:04 Playing Mozart to unborn babies makes them better -> Myth. In studies, blur worked better, or any stimulation 20:30 Cult members are stupid gullible sheep -> Myth. In fact more intelligent people can build structures to defend their beliefs 21:43 Subliminal messages -> Myth. No evidence subliminal messages work 22:57 We only use 10% of our brains -> Myth

I feel like they cut off the expert too often, but I also feel like I should look somewhere else for psychology podcasts lol

His example of reappraising what made you angry... and describing being cut off in traffic... as a great one. it always helped me to stop and think that maybe that person cut me off completely by accident. We've all done that. Or maybe they've just been having a rare shitty day. Maybe they just learned they had cancer, or that a loved one died, or is about to die, or they lost a job etc. etc. etc. and now they are extremely distracted. Sure there are also assholes out there too... but the point is you don't know which is the case, and you will likely never know... So for your own psychological well being, why not just assume the best, instead of the worst.

Does this mean we're not getting a video: "20 best nut shots in movie history"?

Michael is actually hilarious in a conversation.

"The rest of you have been laid off" *TOO SOON*

10 psychology myths you believe because you've read every Cracked article posted... GO!

The audience is in black and white, the audience are a memory, ILLUMINATI CONFIRMED

"a deep-cut Flintstones joke" This is why we love you, Dan :)

ofcourse Dan was a greenie

This team needs to get together with Adam Conover from Adam Ruins Everything. They would completely annihilate every misconception in culture.

Everyone keeps complaining that they didn't let their gest talk but he actually talked a lot and if you want to learn about psicology it self, I doubt this is the right place to learn it. I mean Cracked is a comedy chanel so there were suposed to be jokes, even the psicologist made jokes to so why are you all so upset about?

Michael's confession about questioning himself in the mirror is interesting now in light of his struggle with alcoholism

As someone who's undergone ECT, it works VERY well... (though I need to get it refreshed). But it made my Depression manageable for most of a year.

I'm so glad they mentioned Loftus!! She's kind of my personal hero and, upon the remarkable opportunity to meet her and have lunch, I can attest that she as a person is as remarkable as her work. :)

15:45 I actually had stayed in a hospital longer than I was supposed to due to having two doctors, each thinking that the other was taking care of my discharge papers (probably not what they're talking about, but hey...)

We are becoming more comfortable outsourcing not only our mind as a processor, but even the memory. I will be sending a bill to this KZfaq channel for the space in my memory (as well as time lost, psychological damages, and personal injury).

I ve been sick for three days and have been binging Cracked videos...too bad they aren't a thing anymore. Cracked did great work.

One thing I really paid attention to was the emotional part- It is so true that the thing on my mind is the most important thing in the world to me at that time- Might have given me the answer to re approaching my relationship without actively approaching it. That one got me interested how emotions are deeper connected to things than we assume because in the moment we don't think that way we just think the way we feel rather than feel the way we should direct ourselves.

"Are cops and lawyers doing this?" Yes. They don't care about the truth, they care only about putting someone in prison for a crime. They don't care if the person really did it or not.

They talked about memory and I like immediately started chanting "LOFTUS LOFTUS LOFTUS"

If you guys want to legitimately learn about psychology, this may not be the best place for it. This is a comedy channel, after all. Learning shit from entertainment and comedy is the reason people learn so much bullshit and then go around preaching it as gospel. Go pick up a used text book. Much more informative and interesting, just not as funny.

Daniel, when you mentioned the Italian race car driver, I definitely muttered "Fliiiiiintstones." You're my spirit animal

I am proud to say I didn't fall for the reverse psych trick to get me to add a comment.. so ha! Take that.

They need to make these longer :). i liked listening to all of them, but it felt rushed to make the most of the 25 minutes.

I liked listening to the psychologist more than the jokes..

the best example I can think of for the bystander effect I've heard of was when doing first aid and cpr you have to specify someone when you say go call 911 because otherwise they'll all think someone else is going to do it and then no one does

does anyone know why people get more mad with you the more you apologise? is it a validation thing, like they think they're right to be mad because you're telling them that?

the first time someone really hurts you, they did that to you in that instance. all the other times you relive those events that it affects the person you become, it's just your mind hurting itself now

I loved what the psychologist said at the end. it was so heartwarming.

As someone who has had 15 treatments of "electroshock therapy" (it's actually called Electro-Convulsive Therapy), I can assure you it is not torture. Nor am I am a zombie. A well-known psychiatrist once said (and I am paraphrasing) that "'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is the most damaging movie to modern psychiatry of all all time".

wish this was longer

Cracked podcast is so good. Not to mention any video with both Daniel and michael is going to be great.

I dislike this world and am upset at my very existence. my thoughts and emotions are treated like a sickness that must be removed, by force if necessary. you have to be a monster to be happy here.

Why did you even have the psychologist on the panel, since you dominated the conversation?

The stabbing case findings were accurate, but the neighbors eventually when cops didn't show up, they did call.

Next time you invite someone allow him to talk more and not interupt!

Dan, Swaim, Jack, and a Psychologist walk into a bar. Swaim didn't notice. Jack started telling random facts. Dan apologized and offered to pick it back up. The Psychologist finished his observations and prescribed many anti-psychotics.

Those scripted memories remind me of the the scene from the movie "Saving Silverman" where the woman psychologist brainwashes Jack Black's character into thinking that he's gay.

great talk but if you invite him please let HIM talk!

I feel like we could have done without two of the four guys on stage.

that guy kinds looked like peyton manning

Where is OPCD!!!

Marketing Psychology Professor guy has a red gnash? rash? something on his forehead... BUT GUYS LET HIM TALK! >:( Also: Having Michael Swaim is always a party.

I have been listening to this podcast for the last 4 years or so and this is the first time I have actually seen what y'all look like. It kind of feels like when they make a movie out of your favorite book- like you have a picture in your head of what the characters should look like and then the casting directors come in and say NOPE. I'm not mad about it but you all don't look anything like I imagined. Which is sort of weird considering I've listened to the podcast for so long... end rant.

" One of the best things you can do is move on..." nice.

I was hoping to learn if psychiatrists still use the "Id, Ego, & Superego" model popularized by Freud.

Can someone list the psychology myths because I am not watching this whole video

It's incredible how many physiological "discoveries" magicians and hypnotists already knew

as someone who tried the "that was the past, move on," thing: It is absolutely the worst option in some situations. There are some things you have to put behind you, but fucking... talk about your problems. And not figuring out the cause of bad things in order to fix them and prevent more bad things is just a basic... thing. In all things. Why would he tell people not to do that?

So nice I watched it thrice This is my favorite of the podcast vids so far!

AMAZING! We invited a psychological expert to listen to three internet comedians talk about his area of expertise!

To all who're complaining about not letting him talk, he DID talk. This podcast follows a conversation format; it is not a lecture. If you notice, the psychologist doesn't have any notes or a teleprompter, so even if you gave him 100% of the air time he wouldn't have had anything prepared to present. He came in knowing he would engage in impromptu conversation and banter. Everyone is allowed to talk in a conversation. The conversation is what makes this podcast fun. You should not be expecting a TEDtalk out of a Cracked video. This podcast literally takes place in a comedy club; that should cue what your expectations should be. If you want something deeper and academic, take a class, open a textbook... youtube is not a substitute for a classroom.

What's funny, about "motivated reasoning," is that I purposefully abandon a belief paradigm if it proves objectively untrue. I changed my entire view on economic systems based on finding out from the hard data that I was plain wrong. This is how we can learn and progress as people, and as a species.

Around 4 or 5 in the afternoon each day, I start getting into the Psychology/Sociology part of the Internet.

these talks and cracked after hours are the only videos I like from the channel this past year.

man cracked. this is great, youre great. i love these podcasts so damn much!!

I wish they had talked more about the Stanford Prison Experiment. Despite the problems with the study, its conclusions were legit and you can see them everywhere. There has never been any such thing as a peaceful, safe police state. Control damages both the person being controlled and the person doing the controlling. When you look at all of the different prisons all over the world, from the open prisons in Norway to supermax prisons in the US or places like Gitmo, you see a very consistent trend where the more power guards have over the prisoners the more violent the prisoners are and the greater the psychological problems and abusiveness of the guards becomes. Prison guards are among the most likely people in the world to commit suicide, to commit domestic violence, etc. And people respond fairly predictably to increasing amounts of control. It's a cumulative thing. The more control there is, the stronger their reaction to it becomes. They start by exerting the control which cannot be taken away from them, such as the ability to modify their own body with tattoos, piercings, etc or the ability to choose who they associate with. Then they create alternative power structures which they choose, such as gangs. Then they engage in interpersonal violence, one person exerting control over another through violence. As they are more controlled, they graduate to inter-group violence, ie gang warfare and attacking members of the 'out group'. As control increases, eventually the gang turns against the "legitimate" authority that controls them, seeking to manipulate or harm it. If control continues to increase, the gangs will join together and become an army which goes to war against the established order. This happens in every prison, in every school, in every home where control is onerous and where the response to undesirable behavior is an increase in the amount of control. Columbine happened AFTER, and in response to, schools becoming festooned with metal detectors, ID badges, police in the halls, and severe controls on student behavior. It happened AFTER schools introduced 'zero tolerance' policies for everything from violence to "drugs" (where you could be expelled for taking an Aspirin), after they took away the ability for students to leave campus for lunch, the ability for students to schedule 'free time' during their day, increased scrutiny of the behavior of students who were 'different' and harsh treatment of minor infractions by those students while there was extreme tolerance for even significant infractions of the students teachers preferred, etc. The harder you lock schools down, the more violent they get. That's not because adolescents are becoming more defiant or violent than in the past, it's because when you squeeze them, they will fight back. Another thing to consider: there are many lists of 'warning signs' to identify students which are a likely threat. We can evaluate these lists pretty easily and see how good they are. There is a school shooting about once every 3 - 4 years. So a legitimately effective list would identify 1 or 2 students every 3 or 4 years at one school in the nation. The lists we have, however, identify a couple dozen kids at every single school every single year. That is a stupendously useless list. And because the students those lists identify face additional scrutiny and additional control, they actively increase the likelihood of a shooting. If you actually want to stop violence in schools, back the fuck off and give the students control over their own lives. Get rid of every single rule and policy which is based on a desire for order or "for their own good". Retain solely the ones which cause actual legitimate physical harm if broken. All reasonable people are comfortable with such rules, as they can be explained and justified without resorting to idiotic concepts like "it might distract from the educational process".

This one was great

When it comes to mob psychology and calling emergency services when something happens, having worked in a 911 call center for a few summers, I've seen the calamity that ensues when instead of everyone thinking the next guy will call 911, what happened was so big that everyone calls, and our operators are flooded handling one situation, which means our response to everything else is hindered. It's much better that fewer people get it in their mind to be that "hero" that makes the phone call, because these days we have technology that helps us handle those situations. Most cities across North America have what's called a gunfire locator system, an array of microphones set up on cruisers and across the city itself to triangulate gunshots, so police and ambulances can react immediately. A similar system is set up for fires, where most apartment buildings fire alarms are hooked up to a city server that alarms the Fire Department. However, when shit hits the fan, like 9/11, or the East Coast blackout of 2003, or industrial safety hazards like a mine collapse or petroleum processing plant fire, everyone is going to call us, and that's when people get hurt or worse. In the city I live in, during the black out for example, I think there were 12 preventable fatalities due to 911 being swamped with phone calls about "my power is out, when is it coming back on?"

Also how is it that even in a room with two other huge Cracked personalities does Swaim so easily steal the scene? Impressive to say the least

my school did something like the Greenie thing... but in elementary school. we learned nothing and one kid had a mental breakdown

All I notice is how Jack's drink keeps changing color based on the camera they use.

I really loved this, super interesting and the Cracked team was hilarious! ^w^

These podcasts are the highlight of my months...

love these live pod casts!

That's a harlan ellison shortstory with the woman being stabbed in a courtyard and no one calling the police. Not sure if was satirizing that or if he wrote it before but that's pretty interesting.

A forum containing one or more comedians is hardly the best way to 'debunk' anything - or communicate *any* useful information, come to that. Just as it starts getting interesting someone changes the topic and they never get back to it.

ah intelligent, light-hearted conversation, refreshing

The bystander effect was thoroughly debunked, and what really happened during the attack and murder of Kitty Genovese was not remotely as reported...

put your hands together for the cracked podcast live!!!!

a friend of mine thinks he has a photographic AND idetic memory despite the fact that he once asked me how to spell "ocean." we are in our 20's...

The method that Brown says he uses for the mentalism trick isn't how it works. Him explaining it *is* the trick. Telling you that it's done that way stops you from examining how the trick is actually done... it's just another misdirection.

Is Dan drinking a beer? coz I'm gonna suddenly give him mad props if he is! ... and I'll be gravely disappointed in that filthy greenie if that's non-alcoholic!!

I think the editing made it look like they were cutting him off more than they actually were.

This is one of the best videos i've ever seen

for the 'going over trauma' thing, give and take there. it can be better to remeber a bad memory in a 'better' position, because remembering it basically 'recodes' it, and you're recording over the horrible experience, with a not so bad version of you remembering it. now, that's not to say that dwelling on it constantly won't be bad, for sure. but a fresh memory, or a particularly bad, traumatic memory, it might be better to go over them to 'soften' them up. edit: he even talks about 'going over' what just made you angry as a way to get over the anger. this is what that therapy thing in pop culture is about... course, i assume he doesn't necessarily mean that, this is how it's supposed to work in every situation, just, pop culture's idea of therapy always being talking it out, isn't necessarily always good.

Another thing that many people don't take into account when talking about the Kitty Genovese case is that Kitty Genovese was queer and was living with her partner at the time in the 1960s, when being accused of being queer could get you thrown in jail and/or sent to a mental institution and basically tortured for life. Kitty's partner, Mary Ann Zielonko, is still alive and talks about her relationship with Kitty a lot.

There is a reverse Kitty Genovese problem right now that everyone has a cellphone. Too many people call 911 to report certain types of incidents, to the point where some other reports happening at that time have problems getting through.

I feel bad for the actual psychologist who had to sit through jack talking

I have always loved psychology and philosophy.

7:31 That experiment actually showed something different - when the dudes in labcoats ordered people to continue shocking, they rebelled, but when they tried to appeal to the subject saying things like "they agreed to this" and "the results of this experiment will go on to save thousands of lives", most reluctantly continued. It was a big experiment that proved the Nazi "I was just following orders" take was NOT a defence because most people will defy an obviously immoral order. The soldiers who claimed they were just following orders had to believe what they were doing was necessary in order to do it 14:32 Why criticize that? You'd rather EVERYONE call the cops, block up the phonelines and NOBODY get involved with the situation as it's happening? If I'm being attacked, I'd much rather have people shouting at and distracting my attacker than have any witnesses just calling the cops and smugly saying to themselves "I did my bit, it's their fault if they die now..."

I lol at these every time omg best 'craming for midterm' listening everrr

Psychology has always fascinated me; but I gotta say, the infallibility of memory can be fucking terrifying to think about. I've got a tendency to dissociate, and a bit over a year back I finally caught onto how bad it could be in my case (I think... I can't say anything with 100% accuracy anymore when it comes to my mind... Which sounds like it's terrible when I write it out but it's actually pretty uplifting to know that?) But it was shit like reading an article and being like, "Oh yeah, I remember reading this a few months back!" And then seeing that it was only posted like a week and a half ago, then going through my browser history, and yeah, that was a pretty bad time in my life... Made me wonder how long shit like that had been going on, how many different aspects of my life it had affected, etc. Finally came to accept that I'd never actually know (and have since had various medication adjustments that helped too). So, yeah. Kinda terrifying, but it did really drive that point home, I have to admit.

thoroughly enjoyed every minute of that

theres very good evidence that memories are rewritten basically every time we remember them

8:25 - about the greenie: haven't you heard about blue eyes experiment from Jane Elliott? Search it. I also recommend the awesome "evil" TED talk from Lombardo (Lombardi?).

Electroshock therapy is super legislated and is super effective for certain things like hyperaggressive behaviors and serious self-injurious behavior (like chew your own hand off). Theres only one facility that still uses it, and it's not like whats shown in movies. Its like a wrist band that delivers a small shock (ive been told it's like a particularly painful bee sting. But dont know) whenever a target behavior is being exhibited. I and many in my field (I work in behavior treatment) are seriously doubtful that the benefits outweigh the ethical dilemma of knowingly inflicting pain on a patient

The experiment to which Michael was referring with the man in the lab coat is called the Milgram experiment. Quite interesting, worth a search.

The ad I got for this was called "Even Santa Poops"..... WTF?!?! That was just SO WRONG on several levels ^_^

Shock-Therapy pretty much reduced Hemingway to a drooling depressive with memory gaps and lead to this suicide. Not a technique to promote...

It woulda been cool if the camera caught Chappelle in the crowd laughing

its a bit ironic that this discussion was about how basic film's presentation of psychotherapy is, and cracked only got one guy to ask all the questions surrounding a huge variety schools of thought

If Cracked made a College, they could use panels like this to make curriculum for each subject. The professor could build on the frame that the panel built by adding more academic information. It seems like the education might produce more mentally connected and interested students

Hosts a panel that debunks movie psychological myths, brings up a misnomer about the experiment where they shocked people.

Kitty's case is nothing to be made fun of.

this looks like they were cutting the scientist to get in more jokes and did not let him talked...

I love the stage shows

Let him talk God damit!