To celebrate, I asked a group of colleagues who worked with me on the series to sit down at Vsauce HQ and watch through three entire episodes. We go behind the scenes, elaborate on topics in the episodes, and dig in to what impact working on Mind Field has had on their current research. GUESTS: Samuel Veissière, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Psychiatry, McGill University Elisabeth de Kleer Producer/Director Daniel Toker Neuroscience PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley Judy Ho, PhD, ABPP Clinical and Forensic Neuropsychologist WATCH MIND FIELD: SEASON ONE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqKdEhx-dD4&list=PLZRRxQcaEjA4qyEuYfAMCazlL0vQDkIj2 SEASON TWO:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sl5KJ69qiA&list=PLZRRxQcaEjA7wmh3Z6EQuOK9fm1CqnJCI SEASON THREE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktkjUjcZid0&list=PLZRRxQcaEjA7LX19uAySGlc9hmprBxfEP 2:41 – Placebos 4:50 – Emotional valence and colors 5:06 – Color and attentional bias 8:26 – Nonspecific effects 8:59 – Specific vs nonspecific effects 10:22 – Nonverbal people/animals and placebo effects 16:23 – Placebo studies 16:48 – Neuroenchantment 17:24 – Ethics of placebo studies 20:41 – Adaptive self-deception 22:28 – Transitional objects 22:59 – Accessory-assisted suggestion 27:07 – Neuroenchantment and genetic testing 39:23 – Placebo mind-reading experiment 47:15 – Placebo thought-implantation experiment 48:38 – Hypnosis 50:57 – Hypnotic susceptibility 51:52 – Placebo effect in animals 1:00:26 – Replication crisis in psychology 1:02:50 – Placebo psychedelics 1:05:15 – Tulpamancy and Tulpamancers 1:08:15 – Terror Management Theory 01:08:21 – Mortality salience 1:19:40 – Experimental ethics 1:43:10 – Cryonics 1:44:52 – Cryogenic preservation 1:55:00 – Socioeconomics of cryogenic preservation 2:12:48 – Digital immortality 2:17:09 – Learning and memory 2:17:24 – Hippocampus 2:18:13 – Video games and the brain 2:21:00 – How MRIs work 2:25:58 – Life-sized maze 2:34:16 – Blab droid 2:36:22 – Empathy towards machines 2:37:49 – Anthropomorphism 2:45:16 – Sleep and hippocampus memory retention 2:46:36 – Sleep and memory 2:49:08 - Effect of video games on memory 2:53:27 – Memory palaces