Psychology Series & Films on Netflix
With the never-ending choice on Netflix, sometimes it’s just impossible to decide what to watch. If, like me, you’re a psychology enthusiast, you’ll enjoy these recommendations. So bookmark the page and work your way through them and share any of your recommendations below😍.
- The Mind Explained is a Netflix series of five episodes covering memory, dreams, anxiety, mindfulness and psychedelics. Unfortunately, they’re only 20 minutes long, so you’ll skip through this quite quickly.
2. The Creative Brain is a documentary hosted by neuroscientist David Eagleman who speaks with innovators about how to tap into creativity and some unusual ways to go about it. It’s less than an hour and is worth watching.
3. 101 Humans is a bit of fun where 100 people get involved in experiments to explore different aspects of human nature. Over eight episodes explore attraction, age, bias, sex, happiness, pain & pleasure, and the senses.
4. Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics is a documentary and interviews well-known people who share anecdotes of their personal experience with psychedelics. It gets a bit annoying in parts but worth watching for the bits of insightful information about this drug that is having a resurgence in popularity to treat certain conditions.
5. Babies is a docuseries that explores how infants discover life using some groundbreaking scientific techniques. There are two series, twelve episodes in total, covering all aspects of development.
6. The Most Unknown is a documentary covering scientific disciplines from physics to psychology as several scientists discuss and share ideas on some deep questions of life.
7 . Three Identical Strangers. If you haven’t already seen this, I highly recommend it. Three teenagers who meet by chance and find out they are triplets discover their own true story. It's both fascinating and heartbreaking and asks some basic questions about nature and nurture.
8. Coded Bias had me gripped, and it’s no spoiler to say it has a good outcome. An M.I.T researcher discovers flaws in the facial recognition technology built into algorithms and makes it her mission to right some wrongs.
9. The Social Dilemma isn’t new, but again, if you haven’t seen it, it’s definitely worth watching as designers discuss how the obsessive appeal of social media tools is exactly what they are meant to be. This goes well with The Great Hack about how Cambridge Analytica became involved in the 2016 Presidential election with social media docs.
10. Finally, my personal fave, which I can’t watch too many times, Mindhunter. Suppose you haven't seen this series. Watch it tonight! Two seasons of how the FBI in the 1970s brought psychology into the study of criminal behaviour.
