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Hugh Mackay: What Makes Us Tick?

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Partner:: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Location:: Sydney Institute
Sydney, Australia
Event Date:: 03.22.11
Speaker:: Hugh Mackay
Tags:: minorities; human desire; hugh mackay

Summary

Hugh Mackay has been making notes and taking the pulse of the Australian psyche for several decades now. His latest book illuminates how our desires, such as "being taken seriously" and "a place to call home" are linked to personal identity and relationship satisfaction.

As much as Mackay has been able to come up with a broad list, his refreshing humility on the subject of human "rationality" allows room for a good chuckle, if at least in hindsight.

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Hugh Mackay

Hugh Mackay is a psychologist, social researcher and novelist. He is the author of thirteen books, including six bestsellers. His latest book, What Makes Us Tick?: The Ten Desires That Drive Us, came out last year. In recognition of his pioneering work in social research, Hugh has been awarded honorary doctorates by Charles Sturt, Macquarie, NSW and Western Sydney universities.

In 2004, he received the University of Sydney's alumni award for community service. Hugh is an honorary professor of social science at the University of Wollongong, a former deputy chairman of the Australia Council, a former chairman of trustees of Sydney Grammar School, and was the inaugural chairman of the ACT Government's Community Inclusion Board. He has been a newspaper columnist for over 25 years, and is a frequent guest on ABC radio.

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53 min 22 sec

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01.: Introduction

01 min 25 sec

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02.: Why Did I Do That?

03 min 22 sec

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03.: The Desire to Be Taken Seriously

04 min 57 sec

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04.: What Happens When People Are Not Taken Seriously

05 min 30 sec

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05.: Desire for My Place

02 min 28 sec

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06.: Desire for Something to Believe In

04 min 56 sec

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07.: Desire to Connect

01 min 32 sec

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08.: Desire to Be Useful

00 min 32 sec

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09.: Desire to Belong

01 min 17 sec

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10.: Desire for More

01 min 08 sec

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11.: Desire for Control

00 min 44 sec

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12.: Desire for Things to Happen

00 min 54 sec

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13.: Desire for Love

02 min 09 sec

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14.: Interplay of All Ten Desires

02 min 43 sec

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15.: Q1: Desire in Other Cultures

02 min 19 sec

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16.: Q2: Julian Assange

01 min 44 sec

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17.: Q3: How Desires Differ from Needs

02 min 53 sec

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18.: Q4: Victims of Injustice

02 min 06 sec

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19.: Q5: Why Human Nature Is Irrational when Evolution Is Not

03 min 32 sec

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20.: Q6: Desire to Be Needed and Useful

00 min 30 sec

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21.: Q7: Natural Human Desire to Be Good

00 min 47 sec

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22.: Q8: Tension Between Individualism and Belonging

02 min 30 sec

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23.: Q9: Most Important Work

03 min 24 sec

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Hugh Mackay: The Human Desire to Be Taken Seriously

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Hugh Mackay, author of What Makes Us Tick?, examines how the desire to be taken seriously affects human behavior.

"If we're not taken seriously enough it usually brings out the worst in us," says Mackay. "Much anger in humans individually, and in entire nations comes from feeling as if we haven't been taken seriously."
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What Makes Us Tick?: The Ten Desires That Drive Us

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psychology: Scientific discipline that studies mental processes and behaviour in humans and other animals. Literally meaning “the study of the mind,” psychology focuses on both individual and group behaviour. Clinical psychology is concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. Other specialized fields of psychology include child psychology, educational psychology, sports psychology, social psychology, and comparative psychology. The issues studied by psychologists cover a wide spectrum, including learning, cognition, intelligence, motivation, emotion, perception, personality, and the extent to which individual differences are shaped by genetics or environment. The methods used in psychological research include observation, interviews, psychological testing, laboratory experimentation, and statistical analysis.; psychology on britannica.com