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[Module 1] Evolutionary and Developmental Psychology | The Innate and Acquired Foundations of Human Nature

• 1 [Mind and Brain as One] Mental activity is produced by brain activity
• 2 [Born Clever] Cognitive instincts written into our genes
• 3 [Like Ancestors, Like Us] How biological evolution shaped the human mind
• 4 [More Sperm, Fewer Eggs] The evolutionary roots of psychological differences between the sexes
• 5 [Broad Strokes, Fine Details] The innate and acquired foundations of psychology and personality
• 6 [Neural Pruning] Factors that shape the mind in childhood
• 7 [A Perfect Fit] Psychology in learning and education
• 8 [Reconstructing the Past] The secrets of memory
• 9 [Layered Personalities] Everyone has a “layered personality”

[Module 2] Cognitive Psychology | How the Mind Is Built

• 10 [Not What It Seems] How cognitive illusions arise
• 11 [No Metaphor, No Explanation] The most basic mental model humans use to understand the world
• 12 [Everything Happens for a Reason] Why the brain is born to “look for reasons”
• 13 [Not Looking Too Closely] The psychological basis of group “stereotypes”
• 14 [Consciousness Brings Up the Rear] How the unconscious and conscious mind divide and coordinate the work
• 15 [Order and Chaos Together] Creativity, convergent thinking, and divergent thinking

[Module 3] Psychology and Emotion | The Roots and Effects of Emotion

• 16 [The Command Center] Emotion binds together behavior, decision-making, and perception
• 17 [Rational Emotion] Emotion used as a tool
• 18 [Emotional Emotion] The psychological origins of morality
• 19 [Constructing Emotion] Emotions created by society
• 20 [Choosing the Distant Goal] Using psychology to strengthen willpower

[Module 4] Social Psychology on a Macro Scale | The Imprint of the Group

• 21 [It’s Not My Fault] The motives behind self-justification
• 22 [From Human to Self-Serving] Why people conform
• 23 [The Prisoner’s Dilemma] The psychology of cooperation in groups
• 24 [Cultural Imprints] How differences in group minds take shape

[Module 5] Learning to Understand the Psychology of Science

• 25 Getting clear on the “conditions and limits” of psychological principles
• 26 The “psychological way of thinking” that gets to the heart of a problem
• 27 Comparative thinking: seeing the world through the lens of psychology