Understanding the Mysteries of Human Behavior
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
Gain insight into puzzling aspects of human behavior with these thought-provoking lectures on such psychological mysteries as happiness, personality, self-esteem, and more.
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Solving Psychological Mysteries
- 02: How Did Human Nature Evolve?
- 03: Where Do People's Personalities Come From?
- 04: How Can Siblings Be So Different?
- 05: Why Do People Need Self-Esteem-Or Do They?
- 06: Why Do We Have Emotions?
- 07: What Makes People Happy?
- 08: Why Are So Many People So Stressed Out?
- 09: Why Do Hurt Feelings Hurt?
- 10: Why Do We Make Mountains out of Molehills?
- 11: Why Is Self-Control So Hard?
- 12: Why Do We Forget?
- 13: Can Subliminal Messages Affect Behavior?
- 14: Why Do We Dream?
- 15: Why Are People So Full of Themselves?
- 16: Do People Have Psychic Abilities?
- 17: Why Don't Adolescents Behave like Adults?
- 18: How Much Do Men and Women Really Differ?
- 19: Why Do We Care What Others Think of Us?
- 20: Why Are Prejudice and Conflict So Common?
- 21: Why Do People Fall In-and Out of-Love?
- 22: What Makes Relationships Succeed or Fail?
- 23: Why Do People Blush?
- 24: A Few Mysteries We Can't Explain Yet
Taught by
Mark Leary
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