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Psychology, the big ideas
Cognition, emotion, memory, bias — the core findings that actually held up.
7 lessons
~110 min total
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What you'll learn
Know the big findings of modern psychology that replicated
Understand memory, attention, and decision-making as systems
See why introspection is a bad guide to your own mind
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1
Two systems of thought
Fast intuition and slow deliberation — and why you mostly run on the first.
3 objectives
2
How memory actually works
Not a recording — a reconstruction, every time.
3 objectives
3
Attention is the bottleneck
You notice much less than you think — and that's mostly fine.
3 objectives
4
Cognitive biases that actually replicated
Anchoring, availability, loss aversion — and the ones that didn't hold up.
3 objectives
5
What emotions are for
Not irrational noise — functional signals about the environment.
3 objectives
6
Self and others
Theory of mind, the fundamental attribution error, and why we misread each other.
3 objectives
7
What actually makes people happier
The thin, honest evidence base — separated from the self-help genre.
3 objectives
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