Understanding Social Psychology

This course includes lifetime access so you can complete the course at your own speed.

This simple and engaging course will give you a quick and easy way to know more about people and psychology. You will also have access to some of the most interesting and unique studies in social psychology. By taking this fun introductory course today, you will start seeing how simple research in psychology tells us amazing things about human thought and behavior.

Benefits of taking this course include:

• Unlimited and lifetime access to the course
• Learn the course at your own pace
• Course can be accessed on any platform
• 24/7 Customer support

If you’ve ever wanted a quick and easy way to know more about people and psychology, this is the course for you!

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!

After taking this course, you will have learned the following:

• how we can persuade someone to do what we want without even providing good persuasive reasons
• why people started to walk more slowly after solving a few word puzzles
• why men were more attracted to a woman when they stood on a terrifying bridge
• why praising some kids for their intelligence vs. their hard work dramatically changed their test scores
• why 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!

This Understanding Social Psychology course will cover the following topics:

Topic 1: 15 (Or So) Amazing Experiments

• Study #1 – Behavioral Priming (Subtle Reminders Of “Elderly” And Walking Speed)
• Study #2 – The “Because” Heuristic (Increasing Compliance At The Copy Machine)
• Thought Exercise: Applying The “Because Heuristic”
• Study #3 – Embodied Cognition (Hot Vs. Cold Coffee Influences Person Judgments)
• BONUS VIDEO: Embodiment (Physical Vs. Social Pain)
• Study #4 – The Endowment Effect (Trading Chocolate For Mugs And Vice Versa)
• Study #5 – Stereotype Threat (Racial Stereotypes Affect Exam Performance)
• Study #6 – Ability Vs. Effort Praise (Praising Kids’ Intelligence Vs. Hard Work)
• Study #7 – Mindsets (Entity Vs. Incremental Theories)
• BONUS VIDEO: Integrating Mindsets, Stereotype Threat, And Praise
• Thought Exercise: Applying “Praise” And “Mindset” Research
• BONUS STUDY! Attitude Similarity And Attraction
• Study #8 – Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (Attractiveness And Phone Conversations)
• BONUS VIDEO: Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (Students Marked “Gifted” Perform Better)
• Study #9 – Misattribution Of Arousal (Attraction To A Woman On A Scary Bridge)
• Study #10 – Thought Suppression And Rebound (Suppressing Stereotypes)
• Study #11 – Motivated Perception (Perceiving A Princeton Vs. Dartmouth Game)
• BONUS VIDEO: Motivated Perception (Desired Outcomes Affect Visual Perception)
• Study #12 – Motivated Skepticism (Wanting To Avoid Illness Increases Skepticism)
• Study #13 – Counterfactual Thinking (Happiness In 2nd Vs. 3rd Place Olympians)
• Study #14 – Ingroup Bias (Making Arbitrary Groups Prompts Discrimination)
• Thought Exercise: Applying “Ingroup Bias” For Good
• Study #15 – Fluency And Perceived Truth (Clearly Printed Info Seems More True)

Topic 2: Bonus: "Halloween Psychology"

• Halloween Psychology #1: Deindividuation
• Halloween Psychology #2: Who Likes Scary Movies?
• Halloween Psychology #3: Self-Awareness

This course is designed for anyone who is interested in learning about social psychology.

No prior knowledge is required to take this course.

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Certificate of completion

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