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What are people most afraid of? What do our dreams mean? Are we natural-born racists? What makes us happy? What are the causes and cures of mental illness? This course tries to answer these questions and many others, providing a comprehensive overview of the scientific study of thought and behavior. It explores topics such as perception, communication, learning, memory, decision-making, persuasion, emotions, and social behavior. We will look at how these aspects of the mind develop in children, how they differ across people, how they are wired-up in the brain, and how they break down due to illness and injury....

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GK

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I cannot wait to enrol for my next course !! I feel like a different person, much more enlightened and educated. I cant begin tot hank the designers of this course and our very sweet professor Bloom.

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Professor Bloom has quite engaging style of teaching and the animations in this course provided nice visual reference.Overall, it's a nice course if you want to learn basic introduction of psychology.

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By praveen k

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Jul 16, 2020

this an wonderful course of fundamental psychology and i learn such hug thinks on this lectures how to handle emotions ,fear and etc this basic course very helpful to learn about deep psychology in future thanks to Yale university providing very useful notes are provided in this lecture presentation aslo nice again thanks to all....

By Virendra s

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Jun 7, 2020

This is a fantastic course and professor Paul Bloom just guides and glides you through it making it very interesting. The course touches upon all important aspects and subjects in psychology and make the subject very interesting.

I want to pursue a specific area in this whole wide subject. Looking forward to some more studying on it

By Georgia C

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Jun 7, 2020

I found this course extremely informative and engaging. The topics are all interesting topics that also help you to understand every day life, and how/why people think the way they do. I particularly liked the mental disorders and genetics module; it helps to give a deeper understanding in to these issues and how they can be treated.

By Anirudh G T G

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Apr 24, 2023

What a course!!!!! If your someone who introspects a lot on all the major issues of life, then haveing a knowlwdge on how we thing and what contributes to it is necessary and helpful in understanding how complex our way of thinking really is. Awesome course and its free, rather than wasting time on instagram..... take this course.

By Joyce L

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Feb 5, 2022

I find the course excellent. Interesting topics and helps you gain some perspectives of the different fields of psychology. The books introduced sound interesting. I would hope to go to some of those later. The presentation format is fresh and focused. I also welcome the occasional humorous touch. Thank you very much for the course!

By Dongsheng S

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Sep 18, 2020

This is a great intro course to psychology, which kind of accomplish my dream of being a psychology student. The course gives a general structure of modern psychology. Besides that, it gives how it becomes modern psychology. Also, Professor Bloom is so knowledgeable, I wish I can take one of his class at Yale some time in the future

By Sagar S

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Jun 24, 2020

Definitely a great course to learn introductory aspects of psychology and I recommend this course to those who wish to learn basic terms of psychology, how our brain functions, various theories related to pyschology and much more. I would like to thank YALE and Coursera for providing this opportunity of awesome learning experience.

By Eunice C

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Jun 13, 2022

Superb course!

This is my first course at Coursera, I am so lucky and delighted to study with Professor Paul!

His courses are interesting and easy to understand, and I have learnt a lot about psychology and my well-being even increased after finishing this course!!!

I believe that I will recommend this course to my friends! Thank you!

By Yicheng D

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Sep 27, 2019

Its a great course overall. But as a student in engineering area. It's hard for me to understand all the things in the first round. And the long reading materials are too long and hard to get my attention. I found myself forget most of the things I learnt from previous week. Maybe I will try to watch the course for the second time.

By Coleman W W

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Oct 17, 2023

An absolute must if you have no knowledge or interest in psychology. Very easy to follow, challenging while taking the course because I was evaluating myself. Professor was easy to listen to and the reading materials are the perfect compliment for each mod. I will now pursue, in the back half of my life, a degree in psychology.

By Lourdes O

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Aug 28, 2022

¡Muchas gracias!

La información es muy valiosa. Me encantó el curso y todos los temas.

Realmente requiero de más tiempo para estudiar y mejorar la comprensión de todas las lecciones.

Deseo contar con la oportunidad de cursar la carrera o al meos diplomados.

Gracias a todo el equipo por hacer esto posible y compartir sus conocimientos.

By T W

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Jul 11, 2020

I would like to thank the professor for such a structured, optimized course with such extensive information, I have been fond of psychology for many years, and I have found a lot of useful and interesting information here, very good presentation of information with excellent examples, easy and fun, I would like it to be continued.

By Sutha J

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Jun 28, 2020

Though I am a Computer Science Engineering Graduate, I never felt bored on learning this course. It gave me a good idea about Psychology of self and Psychology of groups and the various theories related to that. Very interesting. Instructor is very good in explaining and his presentation is so lively and useful. Thank you so much.

By John W

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May 26, 2020

At a time where spare brain power was available this course has provided me with a wonderful opportunity to enhance my learning on a subject I have always been keenly interested in. Paul's pace and style were perfectly suited to my learning preferences and would have no hesitation in recommending this course to others. Thanks Paul

By Hannah J Y

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Aug 24, 2019

This was the first online course I have taken. I was skeptical at first, but immediately became engaged in what the professor had to say. He made the course engaging and entertaining, and gave information in many ways for whatever works best for you. I definitely recommend it to anyone who is even vaguely interested in psychology.

By Valeriia Z

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May 8, 2023

With all the "social media psychologists" and their shouting terms and advice at people from screens I began to lose faith in psychology as a science. This course helped restore it. Thank you. Quite informative and immensely interesting.

It also helped me to change my perception of some things in life - very refreshing and useful!

By Kyle B

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Apr 22, 2022

Professor Bloom's careful explanation of the science of psychology paired with the animated videos helped to keep me engaged with the lectures. I thoroughly enjoyed this course and highly recommend it for anyone interested in learning more about child development, language, behavior, mental illness, or just psychology as a whole.

By Keya S

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Sep 12, 2020

Thoroughly thrilled by the course, it was engaging and simple, graspable. Had an amazing experience learning all that was offered in the course while at the same time, it was not too much to become overloaded. Compactly packed course which addressed important issues and concepts of psychology, which I had always pondered to know.

By *Caroline S

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May 19, 2020

I took this course to help me review for my AP Psychology exam. Professor Bloom went over everything that I had learned throughout my AP Psych course, except more. He covered the details that I originally had trouble understanding perfectly. If it weren't for this class, then I probably wouldn't have end as well on my AP exam.

By Alisia O

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May 12, 2020

I really like this instructor. He explained things so well, kept the course interesting, and gave a lot of research information. The course was well outlined and covered a wide variety of topics. I was interested the whole time, I feel like I know how minds work much better, I feel enlightened, and I had a lot of ah ha moments.

By Samarth C

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Apr 30, 2020

Thoroughly enjoyed the lecture series; The instructor has done a brilliant job in curating the content and delivery of the material of every lecture, and the suggested readings and resources are also marvellous. Definitely recommend this to anyone in any field who wants to shed some light on the nature of others and themselves!

By Michael E W

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Jul 1, 2024

Very good overview into all parts of Psychology. Instructor did a great job at keeping the content in-depth enough to get a reference, but not going too deep into any one area. I would like to see the reviews done after each section though as it was tough keeping track of all of the names of the studies after hearing 10 or so.

By Aniza S S

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Jul 15, 2023

Recently I have discovered that for so long in my life I have been lost in taking the wrong major at university that does not align with my job. I should have taken psychology in the first place. I'm so glad to find this course and wo excited to learn about psychology. I hope it is not too late to start learning something new.

By Subira A O

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Jun 25, 2022

This course truly broadened my understanding to not just aspects of clinical psychology but to the simple ideas of emotions and social interactions that we share in our daily lives. Through lectures, videos and readings there is a more profound comprehension of the psychological mindset that is ever crucial in our lives today.

By Damaraparapu V K | A

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May 29, 2020

This course was better than I have expected. And the illustrations were really really engaging. Giving a feeling that you are in a class with some other students, even though you know you are not. This course gave me a kick start and inspired me to learn more in psychology. Thanks Paul Bloom, thanks Yale and thanks Coursera!!!