This course surveys questions about human behavior and mental life ranging from how you see to why you fall in love.
Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky gave the opening lecture of the course entitled Human Behavioral Biology and explains the basic premise of the course and how he aims to avoid categorical thinking.
This course provides a sampling of problems and methods used by sociologists, with concrete examples from everyday life, history, and contemporary events.
This course provides students with the basic tools for evaluating data from studies in the behavioral sciences, particularly psychology.
This course is an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking.
What do your dreams mean? Do men and women differ in the nature and intensity of their sexual desires? Can apes learn sign language?
This first course in the sequence focuses on principles of brain organization, from neurons to circuits to functional networks.
Every year, Professors Karney and Bradbury teach a large lecture class on Intimate Relationships to undergraduates at UCLA.
What are our emotions? What purpose do they serve? How do emotions relate to our thoughts, memories, and behaviors towards others? What happens when our emotional responses go awry?
This course introduces the viewer to African-American history, with particular emphasis on the political thought and protest movements of the period after 1930...