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27/06/2010

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How our mind can behave very differently depending on who we are with.

Today, we’ll be talking about how our mind can behave very differently depending on who we are with.

Presented by Marcus du Sautoy.
Provost of Columbia University Claude Steele reveals how our brains can be hindered by the power of stereotype threats and shows us what we can do to avoid them. Linguist Guy Deutscher explores how different quirks of our mother tongues can cause very different habits of mind.  Hungarian poet Agnes Lehoczky explores the effect of poetry on the mind and suggests that it’s time to rehabilitate the notion of eavesdropping.

Overcoming stereotype threats by speaking new geographies of the mind.  Illustration by Emily Kasriel.

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