How good are you with money? What about reading people's emotions? How healthy are you, compared to other people you know? Knowing how our skills stack up against others is useful in many ways. But psychological research suggests that we're not very good at evaluating ourselves accurately. In fact, we frequently overestimate our own abilities. D.
By conducting detailed forensic medical evaluations, Joseph Shin works to advance justice, accountability and health for displaced populations.
Physician, child rights advocateJerome Kim, MD, is the Director General of the International Vaccine Institute and an international expert on the evaluation and development of vaccines.
Director General, International Vaccine InstituteAs co-founder and CEO of MASS Design Group, Michael Murphy envisions and creates community-centric structures with healing built into their core.
C. Noel Bairey Merz is director of the Women's Heart Center at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, where she is a professor of medicine.
Professor James Logan leads an internationally renowned research program at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, presents television programs and has a passion for science and natural history.
Biologist, medical entomologistHarvey Fineberg studies medical decisionmaking -- from how we roll out new medical technology, to how we cope with new illnesses and threatened epidemics.
Health policy expertDeepa Narayan is an international advisor on poverty, gender and development with more than 25 years of experience working at the World Bank, the UN and NGOs.
Social psychologistErnest Madu founded the Heart Institute of the Caribbean, a revolutionary clinic for cardiovascular diseases in Kingston, Jamaica -- revolutionary for offering first-class health care in a developing nation. His next stop: Nigeria.
CardiologistG.T. Bynum is using data-driven outcomes and trackable goals to break down historic lines of division.
Mayor of Tulsa, OklahomaAbout this event: Looking back at last year, 2020 was one of the most monumental years of the century. With every progress in time, new global issues arose, including the resurgence of the movement for racial justice, widespread transmission of the Australian bushfire, to one of the most contested elections in U.S. history. All of this against the backdrop of a g.
Event details: Tokyo, Tôkyô, Japan · March 3, 2021About this event: TEDxHoodCollege seeks to explore the ways we can adopt new perspectives on our ever-changing world. Whether it is a new technology, generational relationships, self-evaluation, the world of work, or shifts in the make-up of our families and communities, change is constant. TEDxHoodCollege offers a platform for speakers to share their experience .
Event details: Frederick, Maryland, United States · April 7, 2023As chief investment officer of Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund, Hiro Mizuno led substantial transitions in the portfolio's asset allocation, marked by a strong environmental, social, and governance mentality.
Financier, Former Executive Managing Director of Japan's Government Pension Investment FundAs CEO of Ukraine’s largest private energy company, Maxim Timchenko is at the forefront of the country’s shift to sustainable infrastructure.
Ukrainian energy executiveAbout this event: « Ήθος ανθρώπω δαίμων». Heraclitus, the ancient Greek philosopher, referred to ethos (a person’s character) as the determining factor of what will happen to them in the future (fate). Ethos - our personalities, our virtues and our passions. The course of history, the customs of past life and our outlook towards the challenges that lie ahead. Our.
Event details: Chalkida, Evvoia, Greece · September 27, 2019About this event: The majority of the world’s countries are now governed by democratic regimes. And yet concerns remain that democracy’s spread is stalling and that even within so-called ‘democratic’ nations, the conditions necessary for fair and accountable government find themselves increasingly under threat. Technological advances have had an irrevocable effec.
Event details: Berlin, Berlin, Germany · July 1, 2017About this event: TEDxNortheasternU was created in the spirit of TED’s mission of Ideas Worth Spreading. The student led organization has always aimed to inspire individuals to become better versions of themselves and intends to continue to do so through its 2020 flagship event and theme - Fast Forward: A Different Future. This year, the TEDxNortheasternU team .
Event details: Boston, Massachusetts, United States · October 24, 2020A leading expert in the fields of property valuation and project management, Afra Raymond is battling the government corruption rampant in his country, Trinidad and Tobago.
Transparency activistLaunching today, Jamie Oliver challenges creative thinkers of all kinds to answer this question: How can we get kids excited about eating fresh food? Everyone who hopes to get kids eating, cooking and thinking healthier, log in to the openIDEO project page and take up the challenge, launched as part of Jamie's 2010 TED Prize. The challen.
Posted August 2, 2010Shabana Basij-Rasikh is the cofounder and president of the School of Leadership, Afghanistan (SOLA), the country's first and only girls' boarding school.
Educator, social entrepreneurResist the temptation to bury people under a blizzard of evidence, says psychology researcher Niro Sivanathan. He explains why. This post is part of TED’s “How to Be a Better Human” series, each of which contains a piece of helpful advice from someone in the TED community; browse through all the posts here. Have you ever been in a heated dis.
Posted September 25, 2019Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin is focused on developing a bio-behavioral understanding of substance use behaviors in adult and adolescent substance users.
Biobehavioral scientistDance -- and physical activity -- should have the same status in schools as math, science and language. Psst: it may even help raise test scores, says Sir Ken Robinson. For several years, I’ve been a patron of the London School of Contemporary Dance. In 2016, I was invited to give the annual lecture in honor of founding principal Robert Cohan, .
Posted March 21, 2018After the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Becci Manson and her volunteer colleagues cleaned and restored hundreds of damaged photos.
Photo RetoucherElizabeth Loftus studies false memories. As she describes in her TED Talk, The fiction of memory, she has implanted erroneous memories of childhood trauma into adult study subjects as part of her work. She has pinpointed failures in eyewitness testimonies. She’s found that misinformation can reshape taste preferences. And, she's found that p.
Posted September 23, 2013About this event: TEDxYouthBuildCharterSchool celebrates those educators, educational allies, students, social leaders, and communities who are actively involved in a collaborative effort to reclaim public education as a tool for the improvement of socio-economic conditions and for the enfranchisement of young people as agents for change within their communities .
Event details: Compton, California, United States · May 16, 2014About this event: The world has been growing more and more interconnected for centuries, but the pace of that globalization has increased exponentially in the last 25 years. Our efforts as individuals, groups, and societies have been consumed by learning how to and developing strategies for surviving and thriving in this globalized world. These strategies have mo.
Event details: Ruston, Louisiana, United States · May 3, 2013At Opower, Alex Laskey and colleagues are running what they describe as "the largest behavioral science experiment in the world.” Laskey explains some of the thinking behind it in his TED Talk, "How behavioral science can lower your energy bill," and he shared further insights into the importance of the field in this discussion with Harvard .