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Power and Brain Function:Obhi, S. S., Hogeveen, J., & Pascual-Leone, A. (2011). "Resonating with others: The effects of self-construal type on motor cortical output." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(9), 2668-2674.Hogeveen, J., Inzlicht, M., & Obhi, S. S. (2014). "Power changes how the brain responds to others." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(2), 755-762.Wealth and Empathy Research:Piff, P. K., Stancato, D. M., Côté, S., Mendoza-Denton, R., & Keltner, D. (2012). "Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(11), 4086-4091.Piff, P. K., Kraus, M. W., Côté, S., Cheng, B. H., & Keltner, D. (2010). "Having less, giving more: The influence of social class on prosocial behavior." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99(5), 771-784.Stellar, J. E., Manzo, V. M., Kraus, M. W., & Keltner, D. (2012). "Class and compassion: Socioeconomic factors predict responses to suffering." Emotion, 12(3), 449-459.Social Class and Moral Beliefs:Kraus, M. W., Piff, P. K., & Keltner, D. (2011). "Social class as culture: The convergence of resources and rank in the social realm." Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20(4), 246-250.Kraus, M. W., & Keltner, D. (2013). "Social class rank, essentialism, and punitive judgment." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 105(2), 247-261.Isolation and Psychological Effects:Cacioppo, J. T., & Hawkley, L. C. (2009). "Perceived social isolation and cognition." Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13(10), 447-454.Smith, P. K., & Trope, Y. (2006). "You focus on the forest when you're in charge of the trees: Power priming and abstract information processing." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90(4), 578-596.Wealth Inequality Statistics:International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Various reports on wealth inequality and economic stabilityWorld Inequality Database (WID.world) - Thomas Piketty et al.

The Prejudice That Links Race and Class, Gary Stevenson and Desmond Tutu - Barry's Economics

lundi 9 février 2026 • Durée 15:57

Your accent isn't just how you sound.It's how you're judged.Within seconds of hearing someone speak, we make snap judgments about intelligence, trustworthiness, class, and competence.And we pretend we don't.What happens for you when Gary Stevenson's working-class voice has a posh accent?Why received pronunciation makes people sound more trustworthy (even when they're lying)How accent bias affects everything from job interviews to courtroomsThis is how our brains work - and how it encompasses Archbishop Desmond Tutu's uncomfortable but moving confession about his own unconscious prejudiceThe psychological research that proves this is how all human brains workThis isn't about snobbery. It's not about bad people.It's about how your brain takes shortcuts. And how those shortcuts create real consequences for working-class people – even when their ideas are better, their arguments stronger, their intelligence higher.This isn't opinion. It's behavioural science.You might not like what you discover about yourself. But once you see it, you can't unsee it.Also - I recommend Jimmy The Giant's Channel here:https://www.youtube.com/jimmythegiantand also if you want to know more about Desmond Tutu you can hear him speak here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV2LURTu3eQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2zFB1BromEI’m Barry Ferns – a comedian whose personal journey through failure, homelessness, and rebuilding led me to explore the socio and behavioural economics of inequality.This channel digs into how systems of power shape our identity, behaviour, and beliefs, and how we can shift the stories we tell ourselves and each other about poverty, inequality, and who’s to blame.How to Support Barry’s EconomicsHelp us stay independent and keep making videos like this.- https://www.buymeacoffee.com/barryseconomics- https://ko-fi.com/barryseconomics- https://www.patreon.com/barryseconomics

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How Money Turns Good People Bad - Barry's Economics

lundi 9 février 2026 • Durée 10:16

There's a story running in the background of your mind right now. You didn't start it. You didn't agree to it. And it's ruining your life.That story has a headquarters: Wall Street. A place where the myth that "greed is good" isn't just believed, it's acted out, every single day.But here's what most people don't know: stories aren't just entertainment. Stories are software. We run on them. And behavioral science has proven, again and again, that the story you believe about human nature literally becomes the person you turn into.In this video, I look at:1- The Kathleen Vohs experiments that showed how just being REMINDED of money makes people less helpful, more isolated, and physically move their chairs further apart from others2- The Paul Piff Monopoly study where researchers rigged a game to give one player all the advantages — and watched them become louder, greedier, and more entitled within minutes (even though they knew it was rigged)3 - How economics students become measurably more selfish the longer they study mainstream economics — not because they were born that way, but because the story they're taught becomes a self-fulfilling prophecyThis isn't a video about Wall Street. This is a video about the invisible story controlling your behavior, your empathy, and your life — without you even realizing it.RESEARCH CITED:• Vohs, K. D., Mead, N. L., & Goode, M. R. (2006). The psychological consequences of money. Science.• Piff, P. K., et al. (2012). Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior. PNAS.• Frank, R. H., Gilovich, T., & Regan, D. T. (1993). Does studying economics inhibit cooperation?I’m Barry Ferns – a comedian whose personal journey through failure, homelessness, and rebuilding led me to explore the socio and behavioural economics of inequality.This channel digs into how systems of power shape our identity, behaviour, and beliefs, and how we can shift the stories we tell ourselves and each other about poverty, inequality, and who’s to blame.How to Support Barry’s EconomicsHelp us stay independent and keep making videos like this.- https://www.buymeacoffee.com/barryseconomics- https://ko-fi.com/barryseconomics- https://www.patreon.com/barryseconomics

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We're Measuring the Wrong Economy - Barry's Economics

lundi 9 février 2026 • Durée 05:11

Your rent is up. Your bills are unpaid. But the government says the economy is FINE. Why?The answer is one of the simplest mathematical illusions in politics: GDP and averages.GDP was invented in the 1940s to measure wartime tank production. It doesn't care about your quality of life. It doesn't care who gets the money. It just measures "busy-ness" - and billionaires walking into rooms can make the average skyrocket while you're still on £25k.In this video, I break down:Why GDP is a wartime metric that makes no sense in peacetimeHow averages hide the real economy from viewThe two numbers that actually tell us how people are doing Why we can't fix what we refuse to measureEvery major economist - Piketty, Saez, Zucman, even the IMF - is sounding the alarm. The pie is growing, but your slice is shrinking. And the reason nobody's fixing it? We're measuring the billionaire economy, not the one you actually live in.We're not measuring the economy wrong. We're measuring the wrong economy.Barry Ferns – a comedian whose personal journey through failure, homelessness, and rebuilding led me to explore the socio and behavioural economics of inequality.This channel digs into how systems of power shape our identity, behaviour, and beliefs, and how we can shift the stories we tell ourselves and each other about poverty, inequality, and who’s to blame.How to Support Barry’s EconomicsHelp us stay independent and keep making videos like this.- https://www.buymeacoffee.com/barryseconomics- https://ko-fi.com/barryseconomics- https://www.patreon.com/barryseconomics

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Why the Science Says Rory Stewart Is Wrong - Barry's Economics

lundi 9 février 2026 • Durée 20:55

This video isn’t about attacking Rory Stewart, or about bad faith, stupidity, or intent.It’s about something more uncomfortable... and much more common.Some of the biggest mistakes in modern politics and economics aren’t made by extremists or idiots.They’re made by intelligent, well-meaning people who all make the same mistake at the same time, and don’t notice it.Decision science has a word for this: homophily.When people with similar backgrounds, training, and assumptions cluster together, their errors stop cancelling out. They line up.That’s when consensus starts to feel like evidence.Using Rory Stewart and The Rest Is Politics as a case study, this video looks at:1 - Why expert agreement can become unreliable in complex systems2 - How dismissal replaces critique3 - And why voices from outside elite circles often sound “dangerous” rather than informativeThis isn’t a call to shout louder.And it isn’t a rejection of expertise.It’s a reminder that when everyone around you agrees, that’s often the moment you should check what you might be missing.I’m Barry Ferns, a comedian whose personal journey through failure, homelessness, and rebuilding led me to explore the socio and behavioural economics of inequality.This channel digs into how systems of power shape our identity, behaviour, and beliefs, and how we can shift the stories we tell ourselves and each other about poverty, inequality, and who’s to blame.How to Support Barry’s EconomicsHelp us stay independent and keep making videos like this.- https://www.buymeacoffee.com/barryseconomics- https://ko-fi.com/barryseconomics- https://www.patreon.com/barryseconomics

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