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• What motivates people to take selfies?

  Laurie asks Katrin Tiidenberg about her research on the selfies phenomenon.

  Duration: 0:52

• Perfect Body, Perfect Mind

  Heather Widdows on why society has come to value beauty above all else.

  Duration: 0:25

• Are you afraid of the dark?

  How has the way we react to darkness & light changed over the past 200 years?

  Duration: 4:04

• Can your height impact how much you get paid?

  Attorney & author Tanya S Osensky on the hidden cost of 'heightism' on your salary.

  Duration: 2:10
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• The British Sociological Association special award for Thinking Allowed

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