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Psychology: How Your Mind Works in Six Lectures

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About Psychology: How Your Mind Works in Six Lectures

Introduction

What is psychology?

How our perception really works

The truth about our memory

Why emotions are aso messy

Why our self-image tends to be inaccurate

Our social nature and why good people do bad things

Bonus: How our brain understands people (empathy)

What You Will Learn?

  • Our mind doesn’t work the we think..
  • This course takes you on a short journey through the basic topics of psychology and teaches you how your mind really works..
  • Discover how our brain secretly edits what we perceive and remember, why emotions make our life messy, and how our social nature influences our behavior..
  • What you will learn in this course.
  • What psychology (and a psychologist) really is.
  • How your perception works.
  • How your memory works and why you often shouldn't trust it.
  • Why emotions can make life messy and the hidden mechanisms behind this.
  • Why most people have an unrealistic self-image and why this is actually healthy.
  • How our social nature influences our behavior.
  • Learn key lessons from the most essential psychology topics in just a few lectures and get a completely different perspective on yourself and the world..
  • When I was a psychology student, I was often baffled by the things I learned..
  • “How can this not be common knowledge?” I thought..
  • Many of the lessons seemed crazy to me but it is hard to argue with decades of rigorous research..
  • In this course, I want to share psychology insights that completely changed the way I look at the world..
  • So get started now and find out how your mind really works..
  • You can start with any lecture and see for yourself what it has in store for you..
  • And you can ask me any question you have about the human mind..