SciShow Psych: Studying the Brain with... Quantum Mechanics?

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Subject: Psychology
Content of the Lesson: Quantum mechanics may not seem like it has anything to do with human psychology, but some psychologists are starting to borrow concepts from the field to help make human behavior more predictable. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Bd_Tmprd, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, Katie Marie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://bear.warrington.ufl.edu/brenner/mar7588/Papers/shafir-reasonbased-cog1993.pdf http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170215-the-strange-link-between-the-human-mind-and-quantum-physics http://doc.rero.ch/record/315777/files/11238_2010_Article_9202.pdf https://www.thedocc.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/J29.-BuseWang-2015-CD-in-psy_q-cog.pdf https://www.thedocc.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/J17.-WangBuse-2013-QQ-model.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0302005v1.pdf https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14786443208647909 https://www.livescience.com/amp/quantum-like-model-of-decision-making-proposed.html https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/111/26/9431.full.pdf Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quantum_superposition_of_states_and_decoherence.ogv https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Single_electron_probability_pattern.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wave-particle_duality.gif https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AWave-particle_duality.ogv


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