Understanding Evil - Mary Helen Immordino-Yang

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Assistant Professor of Education, Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Southern California, delivers a talk at Facing History and Ourselves' Day of Learning: Confronting Evil in Individuals and Societies. Immodino-Yang uses examples from experiments she has run to describe some of her findings about how humans relate physical actions they see or perform and emotions they feel.She then explains the implications that these findings have for modern education. Immordino-Yang is an affective neuroscientist and human development psychologist who studies the development of social emotion and self-awareness across cultures, and connections to social resilience and morality.

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Understanding Evil - Mary Helen Immordino-Yang is an episode from Facing History: Voices by Hedrick Ellis.

This episode is 24:55 long.

This episode was published on Feb 2, 2015.

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