The mind is flat: the shocking shallowness of human psychology
The courses asks questions as what are the forces shaping human behaviour, how do we think and decide, what are the origins of human rationality and irrationality.
It also examines illusion of mental depth. We live in impression that our thoughts and behaviours arise from deep motives and beliefs and we undergo therapy, lab experiments or brain scanning in attempt to understand ourselves better by uncovering these hidden forces. When we take this illusion away, we can transform our views on ourselves and society in general.
http://www.futurelearn.com/courses/the-mind-is-flat-2014
The courses asks questions as what are the forces shaping human behaviour, how do we think and decide, what are the origins of human rationality and irrationality.
It also examines illusion of mental depth. We live in impression that our thoughts and behaviours arise from deep motives and beliefs and we undergo therapy, lab experiments or brain scanning in attempt to understand ourselves better by uncovering these hidden forces. When we take this illusion away, we can transform our views on ourselves and society in general.
http://www.futurelearn.com/courses/the-mind-is-flat-2014
The Science of Everyday Thinking
This course explores why we have believes we have, how our opinions are formed and how they evolve, why our expectations skew our judgments, how we misuse mental shortcuts and rules-of-thumb in everyday decision making and most importantly, how can we improve our decision making process and make it more effort-full.
To help you on your journey, course will provide you with tools for how to be skeptical and think independently without interference of our own personal experience. In addition, the lectures discuss topics such as medical diagnosis, paranormal phenomena, placebo effects or miracles.
http://www.edx.org/course/uqx/think101x/science-everyday-thinking/1185
This course explores why we have believes we have, how our opinions are formed and how they evolve, why our expectations skew our judgments, how we misuse mental shortcuts and rules-of-thumb in everyday decision making and most importantly, how can we improve our decision making process and make it more effort-full.
To help you on your journey, course will provide you with tools for how to be skeptical and think independently without interference of our own personal experience. In addition, the lectures discuss topics such as medical diagnosis, paranormal phenomena, placebo effects or miracles.
http://www.edx.org/course/uqx/think101x/science-everyday-thinking/1185
Make sure you don't miss a book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" from Daniel Kahneman, check out Veronika's blog post about the book here.