Videos

Aired recently on BBC 2, Putin: The New Tsar tracks the extraordinary rise of an ex-KGB colonel to Boris Yeltsin's successor. The documentary contains commentary throughout by Professor Ian Robertson, Founding...

In light of the recent publication 'Fire and Fury' by Michael Wolff, CNN's Michael Smerconish states that we are wrong to speculate on US President Donald Trump's state of mental...

Professor Trevor Robbins discusses the hubris syndrome and its critical involvement in deficient decision-making. Professor Robbins also makes observations on how damage to the frontal lobe, gender and chronic stress have effects on...

Dr Farrah Jarral, broadcaster and Paddington Green Health Centre GP discusses the history of anthropology and how it shaped our contemporary understanding of the world, for good and ill. Dr...

Professor Douglas Cairns, University of Edinburgh,  discusses the classical definition of Hubris. He describes how it was defined by the great classical thinkers, in relation to temperament and law, and...

Sir Anthony Seldon, University of Buckingham Vice-Chancellor, addresses five topics: Hubris as it has affected recent UK Prime Ministers, from Margaret Thatcher to David Cameron (“four out of the five...

“We often talk about the effects of power without bothering to define it. … The topic is often restricted to the psychological effects of power on people, how they succumb...

“Good times... had me believe my own success… I had the feeling I had done nothing wrong.” Financial Times ft.com/video, Companies & management, 24 October 2016 Andrew Hill, FT management...

"We make hundreds of decisions every single day. But … about 50% of them are wrong". Chamorro-Premuzic explains why smart leaders make ‘stupid’ decisions. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic ,CEO at Hogan Assessments,...

Owen Bennett Jones speaks with a distinguished group of journalists, academics, psychologists, diplomats and politicians (including Lord David Owen, founder of the Daedalus Trust) to discuss the merits and abuses...