Mindstorm : What governs your choices?

Do you think you have full control over your brain and your senses? How conscious are you of your behaviour and why you do certain things? Mindstorm combines science and entertainment in an innovative television format. Host Henrik Fexeus introduces examples of how easily we are manipulated by our surroundings. By adjusting the packaging of items in a shop, he makes everyone buy the same product and highlights the mechanisms that govern the choices we make. He also points out the rhetoric used by politicians to convince us of one point of view or another and the body language that says more than we can imagine. This programme , dressed up in an entertaining and contemporary format, attempts to reach viewers who wouldn’t normally watch scientific content.