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Learn about Yourself and How to Work with Others. Learning about topics like self-esteem and self-control, why people like each other, how relationships start and end, and how being in a group affects people is a surefire way to help you understand and improve yourself and your relationships with others.
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Learn the nature of your self-concept, self-esteem, biases, and blindspots about yourself, and how to control your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Explore why people perceive you the way they do, how to make others like you, how love works, and how to improve your relationships.
Learn how being in a group can distort your perceptions, make you behave inconsistently with your values, and how you can counteract these effects.
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This specialization is intended for anyone who wants to develop a greater understanding of themselves, learn how to improve their relationships with others, and explore the costs and benefits of working in groups.
The courses in this specialization focus on foundational and practical knowledge about the self, attraction and relationships, and groups. In these courses, you will learn about concepts such as self-esteem and self-control, explore the factors that underlie initial attraction and the formation and dissolution of relationships, and discover how being a member of a group can change your thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Practical applications of these concepts include understanding how to improve your self-control, create more satisfying relationships, and protect your groups from the mental and behavioral pitfalls that being in a group can create.
All together, this specialization will give you important insights that can be applied to many areas of your life.
Applied Learning Project
Throughout the course, the learners will be presented with formative assessments to assess their knowledge of concepts that have just been covered. At the end of every module, there are summative assessments which are tracked and graded to assess their overall understanding. Finally, at the end of the course, learners are presented with an overall course-level assessment.
Describe foundational concepts in how psychology understands relationships. Identify how each of the four determinants of initial attraction works.
Explain how we form impressions of other people, the nature of love, and the processes involved in terminating relationships.
Use different models of relationships to predict whether a relationship will be satisfying or not, and whether it will last.
Go on a self-discovery journey to gain insights that you can apply to improve your personal and professional life.
Learn how to navigate challenges and improves habits with self-awareness.
We are all members of a variety of groups. In a typical week, you may collaborate in a team of coworkers, eat lunch with your friends, gather with family and friends for a celebration, watch your children play after-school sports with other parents, read and comment on political news and opinion pieces on social media, or participate in an online support group.
In this course, you will learn about the ways groups can affect your thoughts, behaviors, and the communities to which you belong. You will explore topics in social facilitation, social loafing, deindividuation, group conformity, the bystander effect, groupthink, and group polarization. As one outcome of this course, you will learn about the processes and consequences of these group dynamics, both good and bad, and ways to identify and manage their effects.
APA is the leading scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States, with more than 146,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students as its members. Its mission is to promote the advancement, communication, and application of psychological science and knowledge to benefit society and improve lives.
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Twelve weeks depending on how quickly or slowly you navigate the content.
It would be helpful to have a high school degree or equivalent.
We recommend the following order:
1. Psychology of the Self
2. Social Psychology of Attraction and Relationships
3. Psychology of Group Behaviors
This Specialization doesn't carry university credit, but some universities may choose to accept Specialization Certificates for credit. Check with your institution to learn more.
This course is completely online, so there’s no need to show up to a classroom in person. You can access your lectures, readings and assignments anytime and anywhere via the web or your mobile device.
If you subscribed, you get a 7-day free trial during which you can cancel at no penalty. After that, we don’t give refunds, but you can cancel your subscription at any time. See our full refund policy.
Yes! To get started, click the course card that interests you and enroll. You can enroll and complete the course to earn a shareable certificate, or you can audit it to view the course materials for free. When you subscribe to a course that is part of a Specialization, you’re automatically subscribed to the full Specialization. Visit your learner dashboard to track your progress.
Yes. In select learning programs, you can apply for financial aid or a scholarship if you can’t afford the enrollment fee. If fin aid or scholarship is available for your learning program selection, you’ll find a link to apply on the description page.
When you enroll in the course, you get access to all of the courses in the Specialization, and you earn a certificate when you complete the work. If you only want to read and view the course content, you can audit the course for free. If you cannot afford the fee, you can apply for financial aid.
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