Episode 4 | How Willpower Is Like a Tank of Gas
Clip: Episode 4 | 1m 56s
The brain has a finite amount of willpower to draw on.
An experiment where people have to watch distressing images reveals that the brain has a finite amount of willpower to draw on.
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Episode 4 | How Willpower Is Like a Tank of Gas
Clip: Episode 4 | 1m 56s
An experiment where people have to watch distressing images reveals that the brain has a finite amount of willpower to draw on.
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Episode 4 | The Iowa Gambling Task
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Clip: Ep4 | 1m 27s | What happens when messages from two brain networks clash? (1m 27s)
Episode 4 | The Trolley Dilemma
Clip: Ep4 | 3m 16s | Two scenarios that involve very different systems in the brain. (3m 16s)
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