Animations

Watch videos from our award-winning RSA Animates and RSA Shorts animation series.

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Rebel, Upholder, Questioner, Obliger: which one are you? | Gretchen Rubin

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25 Feb 2019

This animation shines a light on those quirks of our psychology that make it hard to change our (and other people’s!) behaviour. Bestselling author Gretchen Rubin explains the four personality ‘tendencies’ and their respective strengths and weaknesses.
John Lloyd on Knowledge

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18 Nov 2014

What should we teach our children, and what important information should all adults have at their disposal? Legendary QI producer John Lloyd turns his curiosity to knowledge itself, and questions whether intelligence is really all it's cracked up to be.
Jonah Lehrer on Brainstorming

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22 Oct 2012

Journalist and author Jonah Lehrer argues that brainstorming produces less original ideas than those people who work by themselves.
RSA Animate - The Truth About Dishonesty

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14 Sep 2012

In this RSA Animate, Dan Ariely explores the circumstances under which someone would lie and what effect deception has on society at large.
RSA Animate - Choice

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30 Jun 2011

Professor Renata Salecl explores the paralysing anxiety and dissatisfaction surrounding limitless choice. Does the freedom to be the architects of our own lives actually hinder rather than help us?
RSA Animate - Language as a Window into Human Nature

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17 Feb 2011

Steven Pinker shows us how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite meanings.
RSA Animate - First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

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04 Aug 2010

In this short RSA Animate, renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek investigates the surprising ethical implications of charitable giving.
RSA Animate - The Secret Powers of Time

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24 May 2010

In this ten-minute RSA Animate, Professor Philip Zimbardo reveals how our individual perspective on time affects our work, health and well-being.
RSA Animate - The Empathic Civilisation

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10 May 2010

In this lively animation, Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society.
RSA Animate - Smile or Die

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17 Mar 2010

Acclaimed journalist, author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich explores the darker side of positive thinking.

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