THE VIDEO SHELF · psychopathy and mental health
Strange answers to the psychopath test | Jon Ronson | TED
Jon Ronson, author of The Psychopath Test, gives a TED talk on the blurry line between sane and crazy and on psychopathy as a spectrum, with stories of how the label gets applied.
Why HN readers recommended it
Praised as one of the great non-technical talks, appearing in best-talk lists.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- TED
- Topic
- psychopathy and mental health
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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There's a mind bending TED Talk on this which really opened my mind on this topic: [VIDEO] I highly recommend checking it out. In my opinion it is one of the greatest talks of all time and it gave me goosebumps. But if you are …
warent on Hacker News · 2021-01
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prakhar897 on Hacker News · 2021-08
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