Books

• Designing Web Usability00:54The speaker says his study of psychology and anthropology was inspired by Jakob Nielsen's Designing Web Usability.

Concepts

• Change blindness03:16The talk demonstrates a study in which a person changes while someone asking for directions fails to notice the change.
• Demand characteristics05:53The talk defines demand characteristics as people changing their behaviour unconsciously based on the context and how they think they should act.

Papers and articles

• On the social psychology of the psychological experiment06:23The talk reads from a 1962 paper describing serial additions, destroyed sheets and participants who continued an apparently meaningless task.
• Understanding Priming Effects in Social Psychology09:35The talk explains priming with an example where hearing Italy earlier makes Italy come to mind later when discussing a holiday.

Projects and resources

• Three psychology studies that illustrate how we think and behave13:38The speaker points viewers to his Speaker Deck slides and says they include links to the original papers.