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TEDxCambridge

Why We See Things Differently
People can see things differently when presented with the same visual evidence — from party trick optical illusions to courtroom videos of police arrests. Why? The difference isn't in our eyes, but in our memories, and where our mind focuses its gaze. By becoming more aware of our visual attention biases, we can gain a broader and more informed perspective of the world.
August 2023

Unstoppable Show

How To Achieve ANY Goal
with Stephen Scoggins
March 2023

World Science Fair

Fooling the Eye: Revealing the Truth
People can see things very differently when presented with the same visual evidence — from party trick optical illusions to courtroom videos of police arrests. The difference is in our eyes, but also in our memories, and where your mind focuses its gaze. By becoming more aware of our visual attention biases, we can gain a broader and more informed perspective of the world.
February 2023

ABC News

Does Food Taste Better When Someone Else Makes It?
December 2022

The Knowledge Project

The Science of Setting and Achieving Goals
Social psychologist Emily Balcetis goes in-depth on understanding how people’s perceptions of the world fuel their motivations and life goals, what she’s learned from studying some of the world’s most successful people and how they set goals, and how you can get better results in life if you change the way you see the world and where you place your focus.
December 2022

The We Do Hard
Things Podcast

Why the Secret to Success is Setting the Right Goals
Dr. Balcetis explains how to best break down, visualize and overcome the challenges we face as we work towards hitting our goals.
October 2022

Huberman Lab

Tools for Setting & Achieving Goals
Dr. Emily Balcetis and Dr. Andrew Huberman discuss tools that anyone can use to achieve physical and/or cognitive goals more effectively.
August 2022

BBC News

The Power of Narrow Visual Focus
Ever wondered why you can’t meet your fitness goals? Dr. Emily Balcetis turned to elite runners to find out.
January 2022

Strategy Sprints with Simon Severino

The Behavioral Science of Setting Goals
May 2021

Emotion Revelation 
with Sally Boardman
May 2021

How Successful People See the World

with Alain Guillot
April 2021
 

Real Leaders Podcast

Seeing Better Leadership
Emily divulges her current research into what successful work cultures embrace, how to set the goldie-locks goal, and why it just could be as simple as changing the optics.
March 2021

Good Morning America

The Hidden Secret to Achieving Your Goals
Emily Balcetis, author of the book, "Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World," shares four ways you can envision and achieve your own goal
March 2021

Business Minds
Coffee Chat

with Jay Scherr
Emily shares the four powerful visual strategies to reshape the way we see the world and how we can use them to our advantage for setting and achieving goals, the impact of social media on our view of the world, how she reframes failure, and more.
October 2020

Theories of Meaning
and Motivation

A Roundtable Discussion
with Emily Ballets, Ned Block, Lawrence Friedman,
and Edward Smith
May 2011
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