Yes, it is a casual introduction and not a rigorous scientific survey. But, the people behind the video are real scientists with real and interesting data to back them up. The UC Berkeley team behind it have been doing research in this field for years, and there are links to relevant websites with their research on the same page as the video. I hoped it would spawn a conversation, but that's not really what happened. A few people dismissed it, and a few found it interesting, but nobody said, "Here's an article or piece of research which seems to conflict with these results or presents new ideas on why they got these results".
I think it's interesting that you haven't raised any objections to the science...only that the video is not a peer-reviewed scientific article, even though the peer-reviewed science does exist, and is easily found on the websites linked in the information on the video (http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~keltner/publications.htm).
The use of the term "natural philosophy" implies you don't believe the research discussed in the video is reproducible or predictive, and is instead merely the musings of pre-scientific thinkers, which is dismissive. Yet, you haven't addressed the science itself, only their methods (seemingly without digging a bit to see that they are, in fact, doing real science).
So, I understand your desire to see real science instead of bogus science masquerading as the real thing. I'm as suspicious as you of most videos I see that claim to understand something really complex (like human behavior). But, if I see that the people making the claims have linked to copious and good research on the subject, I'm happy to watch a layman's introduction to the subject so I can get a bird's eye view, without having to have a deep understanding of the subject matter.
If you have reason to believe there's something wrong with their science, that would also be great to talk about. I'm genuinely not trying to convince anybody of anything, I'm trying to learn and I found this video really interesting and informative about things I don't have a good grasp of.
I think it's interesting that you haven't raised any objections to the science...only that the video is not a peer-reviewed scientific article, even though the peer-reviewed science does exist, and is easily found on the websites linked in the information on the video (http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~keltner/publications.htm).
The use of the term "natural philosophy" implies you don't believe the research discussed in the video is reproducible or predictive, and is instead merely the musings of pre-scientific thinkers, which is dismissive. Yet, you haven't addressed the science itself, only their methods (seemingly without digging a bit to see that they are, in fact, doing real science).
So, I understand your desire to see real science instead of bogus science masquerading as the real thing. I'm as suspicious as you of most videos I see that claim to understand something really complex (like human behavior). But, if I see that the people making the claims have linked to copious and good research on the subject, I'm happy to watch a layman's introduction to the subject so I can get a bird's eye view, without having to have a deep understanding of the subject matter.
If you have reason to believe there's something wrong with their science, that would also be great to talk about. I'm genuinely not trying to convince anybody of anything, I'm trying to learn and I found this video really interesting and informative about things I don't have a good grasp of.