Learn Psychology

Do you want to learn psychology? Psychology is one of the most popular majors on college and university campuses all over the world, but that does not mean that you have to earn a degree in psychology to learn more about the human mind and behavior. Today, there are plenty of great ways to learn more about the human mind and behavior such as taking a college course, signing up for a free online class or self-studying using online resources. Explore the links below to find the tools, resources, quizzes and information you need to learn more about the wide world of psychology. Have a seat and make yourself comfortable, we are about to start class. Psych 101 is a general psychology text adapted to an online guided format. Achieving a state of “flow”. Encouraging a growth mindset. Removing triggers for mindless eating. Guarding against confirmation bias. Nudging behaviors through thoughtful design. These concepts, and many others like it, are entering our public awareness, backed by recent research in psychology. As a field, psychology has been progressing rapidly, aided by advances in neuroscience and collaboration with other fields (economics, technology, design, etc.). In 2002, the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences went to psychologist Daniel Kahneman for his work depicting human biases, and an outpouring of popular books. The interesting thing is that there have been interesting research findings for a long time, but it seems the public has developed a renewed interest in the subject (maybe in part due to recent economic crises and the collapse of assumptions based on ‘rational actors’). Enjoy learning psychology today.