Understand The Mind 15 Fascinating Psychology Studies

What you'll learn
Use psychological research to reach your personal goals and desires
Apply psychology to engineer more effective group interactions
Consider ways of using real psychological science to solve the big problems of our day
Gain insight into simple changes that make big differences in learning, liking, judgment, and perception.
Requirements
An openness to surprising results from psychological research.
A motivation to understand the bigger picture by applying individual research findings to a variety of possibilities.
You don't have to know anything about psychology already, and even if you do, these studies are not necessarily mainstream and the findings and level of detail are likely to be new to you.
Description
**UPDATE: I just added 3 NEW BONUS VIDEOS to expand on and discuss some of the core experiments.If you've ever wanted a quick and easy way to know more about people and psychology, this is the course for you! More than 11,000 people have enrolled in my online psychology courses to learn more about the human mind and social behavior. You can be one of them!Although you could read dense textbooks on psychological research, this simple and engaging course will give you quick access to some of the most interesting and unique studies in psychology.When you finish this course, you'll have a new appreciation for human behavior, persuasion, and influence, and you'll quickly be able to impress your friends and family with your surprising knowledge of human psychology. Not only that, but you'll know exactly what science behind those findings was!The studies in this course reveal.how we can persuade someone to do what we want without even providing good persuasive reasonswhy people started to walk more slowly after solving a few word puzzleswhy men were more attracted to a woman when they stood on a terrifying bridgewhy praising some kids for their intelligence vs. their hard work dramatically changed their test scoreswhy people who held a hot cup of coffee instead of an iced coffee automatically started thinking a stranger was especially generous and caring.and much more!Carefully designed experiments tell us a great deal about the choices we make, the ways we behave, and why we think the way we do. Throughout this course, you'll learn about a bunch of these experiments and see exactly what they say about yourself and the people you meet every day.I'm a social psychologist myself, and I thought about which studies most interested me early in my education and which studies are my current favorites. I even reached out to my colleagues to ask them what studies have most inspired them and are important for everyone to know about.This could be the beginning of your new-found interest in psychology. After taking my classes, many of my students have begun pursuing psychology themselves! But even if you just want an easy introduction to psychology, you'll want to check out these fascinating studies now.So enroll in this fun introductory course and start seeing how simple research in psychology tells us amazing things about human thought and behavior!
Overview
Section 1: Introduction
Lecture 1 Welcome and Introduction
Lecture 2 A Quick Word About Reviews
Section 2: 15 (or so) Amazing Experiments
Lecture 3 Study #1 - Behavioral Priming (Subtle Reminders of "Elderly" and Walking Speed)
Lecture 4 Study #2 - The "Because" Heuristic (Increasing Compliance at the Copy Machine)
Lecture 5 Thought Exercise: Applying the "Because Heuristic"
Lecture 6 Study #3 - Embodied Cognition (Hot vs. Cold Coffee Influences Person Judgments)
Lecture 7 BONUS VIDEO: Embodiment (Physical vs. Social Pain)
Lecture 8 Study #4 - The Endowment Effect (Trading Chocolate for Mugs and Vice Versa)
Lecture 9 Study #5 - Stereotype Threat (Racial Stereotypes Affect Exam Performance)
Lecture 10 Study #6 - Ability vs. Effort Praise (Praising Kids' Intelligence vs. Hard Work)
Lecture 11 Study #7 - Mindsets (Entity vs. Incremental Theories)
Lecture 12 BONUS VIDEO: Integrating Mindsets, Stereotype Threat, and Praise
Lecture 13 Interview with Carol Dweck about Praise and Mindsets
Lecture 14 Thought Exercise: Applying "Praise" and "Mindset" Research
Lecture 15 BONUS STUDY! Attitude Similarity and Attraction
Lecture 16 Study #8 - Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (Attractiveness and Phone Conversations)
Lecture 17 BONUS VIDEO: Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (Students Marked "Gifted" Perform Better)
Lecture 18 Study #9 - Misattribution of Arousal (Attraction to a Woman on a Scary Bridge)
Lecture 19 Study #10 - Thought Suppression and Rebound (Suppressing Stereotypes)
Lecture 20 Study #11 - Motivated Perception (Perceiving a Princeton vs. Dartmouth Game)
Lecture 21 BONUS VIDEO: Motivated Perception (Desired Outcomes Affect Visual Perception)
Lecture 22 Study #12 - Motivated Skepticism (Wanting to Avoid Illness Increases Skepticism)
Lecture 23 Study #13 - Counterfactual Thinking (Happiness in 2nd vs. 3rd Place Olympians)
Lecture 24 Study #14 - Ingroup Bias (Making Arbitrary Groups Prompts Discrimination)
Lecture 25 Thought Exercise: Applying "Ingroup Bias" For Good
Lecture 26 Study #15 - Fluency and Perceived Truth (Clearly Printed Info Seems More True)
Section 3: Bonus: "Halloween Psychology"
Lecture 27 Halloween Psychology #1: Deindividuation
Lecture 28 Halloween Psychology #2: Who Likes Scary Movies?
Lecture 29 Halloween Psychology #3: Self-Awareness
Section 4: Conclusion
Lecture 30 Conclusion and Farewell
Lecture 31 References
Lecture 32 Bonus Lecture: More from Andrew Luttrell
Lecture 33 Bonus Lecture: Get a Free Psychology PDF Ebook
Lecture 34 Course Completion Certificate
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