LOVED the course, Paul was engaging and the content was very interesting, I highly recommend this course not only to give yourself insight to moral psychology but to become a better human being by pondering on the various schools of thought in the vast and extensive domain of morality.

I really liked this course. It is somewhat hard for me to judge the level of difficulty since it has been my first course on the subject. Professor Bloom is an engaging professor with a nice sense of humor. The readings are interesting and the videos are pleasant to watch due to Professor Bloom's enthusiasm. Though if you have read the articles parts of the videos made me less able to focus due to the repitition of the matter. Maybe the videos might dig deeper into the subject instead of repeating the content of the articles.

There is one point of real critism, hence the 4 star rating, and that is;

Week 3 and 4 contain links to articles which won't open. Error 404.

By googling the titles of the article it is possible to find them. Though these are New York Times articles and if you don't have a subscription or a free articles left it is not possible to acces them.

There are quiz questions related to these articles and it might influence your score.

Other than this it has been an interesting course and pleasant to watch.

Lisette Woest-Appeldoorn (The Netherlands)

Professor Bloom is knowledgeable, fair, and often humorous without disrupting the quality of the lectures. The use of examples and mixture of teaching media were great. I highly recommend this course.

I found this course very informative and felt Paul Bloom was fantastic at explaining the meaning and ideas around different topics. Excellent tutoring!

The only downfalls i had were that this was aimed more at an American population. I was not too clued up on the American political parties; and Living in New Zealand, there was one guest video that was restricted. I also was not able to access a few of the readings but regardless of this i found the course really interesting and it had me questioning my own lifestyle, particularly with this covid 19 pandemic at the moment and the effects it may have on the not so developed countries. I wouldn't hesitate in recommending this course.

This has been the best course I have taken on Coursera so far. The concepts were so engaging and relevant, I loved the topic choices for this course! The studies that backed up the theories were really enlightening, I loved the part where Professor Laurie Santos presented (I am her fan!), I loved how Professor Bloom kept all of the dilemmas so insightful and truly made us delve deep and introspect about our notions of morality. This course really made me view the moral and philosophical world in a completely different way. I love that it was an objective course to whatever extent it could be, and simply tried to make us reflect on all sides of the politico-moral spectrum.

Thank you, Paul Bloom and Coursera for the course Moralities of Everyday Life by Yale University. This course explores the psychological foundations of our moral lives. This 6 weeks course has thousand of MGB of information that we already knew, but have not used fully before, however, I have noted for myself a lot of new interesting, useful, and just brilliant topics I am going to research in the future.

Highly recommended for people interested in human psychology and ethical behaviour. I did this course as i wanted to conduct a training course on Ethics in Administration . Gave me new insights, new references, new authors and their works that are interesting to study and follow further .Thanks to the Yale Professor Paul Bloom and his team💐

The whole course was very thought-provoking, and enjoyable. It was obvious that the staff took the course seriously and provided well- structured lessons and a good measure of feedback for the participants. Some of the links in the reading sections are now out-of-date, however.

One of the best courses I ever had and I had a lot of courses believe me. Such an eye-opening to understand ourselves and others. the office hours are the best! I enjoyed them so much that I got hooked like binge-watching exactly. Highly recommended you won't regret it!

I enjoyed the course very much.Continuous reading of the material is useful for me to change my behaviour for the better.Personally I am benefited from the course to live an honest and peaceful life.

Enjoyed the course immensely. Professor Bloom really is excellent! He provides entertaining lectures and is also quite funny. High quality overall, learned a lot. Highly recommended!

I think this course gave me a lot of information about morals and people's behavior

NICE CLASS. HELPS ME A LOT.

Solid course overall, I thought the quizzes and info-retention could have been more organized and clearly laid out. I also would have liked a summary at the end or some sort of a one-pager that highlighted key readings, takeaways, notes, questions, and discoveries. Overall enjoyable though and Prof. Bloom did a good job with this course.

Its an OK course but there is a biased form of giving many lectures with a personal view of the course. Its still very interesting and Professor Bloom is hereby well prepared.

A little too much Dawkins for me.

Oh, how I wish I had copied what I wrote earlier. This course has been tremendous for me. Professor Bloom is so engaging, and the combination of his energy, knowledge, and range of topics touched-upon in the course were engaging, stimulating and inspiring. I will be fifty in August, and have wanted to return to some sort of academic endeavor since I graduated from law school, in 2001. I simply couldn't afford it, and I did not have the time - first, because I was practicing law, and then, because I was injured and then a cascade of medical issues followed (and still exist). I have not felt intellectually stimulated on this level for many years; and I have not felt both excited about delving into something truly educational and able to start and follow something important to me through to completion for a very long time. This course was fascinating, and touched upon areas I would not have thought a course on this subject matter would. The lecture by Laurie Santos was absolutely wonderful. The balance of philosophy and psychology; religion and politics; science and emotion; and more all presented a course that provided just enough of everything to leave me wanting to delve in further. I can honestly say that I will be ordering books from Professor Bloom, from Singer, and from others discussed during the course. I enrolled in Professor Bloom's "Introduction to Psychology" course (I used to represent psychiatric in-patients briefly, too briefly, in New York, and have wanted to return to working with the mentally ill for a very long time), and am just beginning the third week. It is not often that one comes across both a professor and subject matter that keep one engaged simultaneously. And for many like me, it is quite something to find someone like Professor Bloom, and to find a course, or a body of knowledge in any form, that can inspire so much, and in so little time. The benefit of a six-week course has been something that will have a lifelong effect. This is rather a more personal, perhaps emotional, review, than one discussing just the academia and what has been learned, in and of itself. To me, though, that speaks to how wonderful the course and the professor are have been. I am ever grateful.

The ability to make formal inferences on a philosophical basis as well as a theoretical framework led me to different areas of research related to my field.

My interest in the relationship between psychiatric disorders, sociocultural acquisitions and moral systems has increased. Then I had the opportunity to evaluate in detail the evolutionary and existential mechanisms of moral statuses. Then I realized that my thoughts and curiosity began to change in response to the etiology and factors of this scheme. Do moral systems and moral judgments in evolutionary psychology have a relationship with neurobiology in psychological disorders? What are the criteria and determinants of this relationship, if any?

My acquisition of this question was through the vision of this course.

When I finished Disgust and Honor I and Disgust and Honor II, when I evaluated the research results and perspectives supported by scientific paradigms, I wanted to place and explore a different parameter in this relationship

Since I am going to do my master's degree in clinical psychology, I observed that the group where I can study moral systems and disgust behaviors in the clinic is OCD patients ... As a result of my literature study of antecedents, reaction sizes, distinguishing points and possible explanations that measure disgust behavior, I thought that there may be a certain relationship and difference in disgust behavior and imagery among ocd individuals with different moral systems.

This course has contributed greatly to me asking this question at this point.

I am very pleased with the theoretical and functional outlook you have presented.

Thank you very much for your efforts and valuable contributions.

My sincere thanks to Mr.Paul Bloom and the entire team.

I'm very thankful of this amazing course by Professor Bloom and Yale University.

I grow up in Vietnam but for a long time I have been exposed to and influenced by Western ideologies, and sometimes this leads me to a situation where I feel lost in a social situation, wondering whether myself or the majority has the better view on morality. This course has helps me come to the realization that we can both be right; instead, what should be focused on is whether our choice brings improvements to the life of other people. I gain more confidence in my beliefs, and at the same time I come to understand more and learn to accept the beliefs of others.

In a more direct way to say this, I become more optimistic with my life and find it easier to talk to my parents even though we differ a lot in our ideologies.

Again, I want to send my sincere gratitude to Professor Bloom and all of the people who had worked hard to share this insightful knowledge to the mass, regardless of their background, ethnicity or education.

More than ever, I believe in the power of knowledge and the reasoning mind when it comes to creating a better life for ourselves and our societies.

This was an excellent examination of morality and very appropriate in this age of Trump, COVID and other traumatic events of 2020. I have completed seven well taught and interesting Coursera courses and this course was by far the best in terms of content, delivery, guest videos and readings. Professor Bloom is an outstanding lecturer and clearly loves teaching. I really enjoyed Dr. Bloom's insights into the actions of actual villains and his personal and humourous insights. The TED lectures were great but I'm curious as to why all the chosen TED lectures were given by men! Maybe males are primary lecturers in morality these days? I would love an updated course that would bring in the 'interesting' approaches to morality of the Trump presidency. The discussion groups were well organized and the 'office hours', while dated from 2014 and 2015 were fascinating and funny. All in all, this course was well worth my time and effort. Kudos to Professor Bloom for expanding my thinking on morality in particular and life in general. COVID and Trump were the furthest things from my mind whilst taking this course. FIVE *****

This was not quite what I was expecting. Although I was expecting that the long videos and oral lectures would prevent me from sitting through all of this, it made no difference- the articles were fascinating and listening to Paul Bloom's reasoning and explanations was captivating, to the point where I was disappointed when the lectures would end. Overall, I think I would recommend this course to someone who wants to get a basic understanding of ethics and ethical decisions from a psychological perspective and not just philosophical. This does not revolve around religion and spirituality or one particular aspect of morality- though, it should be said, those are touched upon throughout this course.

He speaks of Peter Singer frequently throughout this course, so I should mention that there is another course on Coursera, "Effective Altruism" that others who enjoyed this may want to check out, too. Thank you for sharing this, Coursera, Yale, and all who contributed!

I am truly grateful for the invaluable opportunity to partake in a course offered by Coursera. The experience of learning under the tutelage of seasoned professionals has been immensely enriching, and I am profoundly appreciative. It is with eager anticipation that I await the prospect of acquiring further qualifications and honing my skills through Coursera's platform. Dear Professor, I just wanted to take a moment to express my sincere gratitude for your guidance and expertise throughout "Moralities of Everyday Life". Your passion for the subject matter and dedication to teaching have truly made a difference in my learning experience. I am incredibly grateful for the knowledge and skills I have gained under your mentorship. Thank you for your commitment to education and for inspiring me to reach new heights. Warm regards, Mihaela-Silvia Surugiu

My sincerest congratulations to Dr. Bloom for delivering a course packed with rich content relevant to everyday life in a format that is at once stimulating but accessible. I loved the lectures and found them truly engaging -- one can readily tell Bloom is passionate about his discipline and eager to share what he knows. I really liked the idea of the office hours, too, and thought they were a great way of expanding on the foundations laid out in the curricular videos. I also liked the fact that Bloom quotes from so many authors and cites their books, as this gives students a chance to further investigate any topic of their interest using reputable sources. This is my 8th course on Coursera and it has been, by far, the most valuable!

I really enjoyed a lot the course. The depth of the concepts shown and explained was deep. All lectures and support material (videos, talks, articles) were very insightful and thought-provoking.

The approach is very unbiased, giving you different (and sometimes contradictory) arguments, for you to have different options, different points of view. I learned a lot and it sparked in me many spin-off interests.

This course is totally a 5 stars one.

The only very minor caveat is that some links seem to be broken due to the passage of time, but you can find new ones in the forums a/o by doing some simple online research.

Talking about forums, they are really great. You get to also learn a lot from multiple people.

I've just completed week one. I really have to say, this course is SO accessible. I have a chronic mental deficiency (schizophrenia) that prevents me from understanding a lot of lectures (in speech form). This course provides (almost) accurate transcriptions of the lectures. Then you can highlight and save your notes straight from the course. TED Talks also provides a similar transcription section, which this course heavily relies on for me.

Paul Bloom is incredibly knowledgeable, not just in his field but in making sure EVERYONE has the ability to understand his lectures. I am very pleased with this course. It is a privilege to have the opportunity to learn in such an accessible way. Thank you.