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 is an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking.
This course provides a sampling of problems and methods used by sociologists, with concrete examples from everyday life, history, and contemporary events.
What do your dreams mean? Do men and women differ in the nature and intensity of their sexual desires? Can apes learn sign language?
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?
Watch Tal Ben-Shahar's popular Harvard course "Positive Psychology" available for free on YouTube.
This course will cover the biology and psychology of eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder.
This course provides an overview of major works of social thought from the beginning of the modern era through the 1920s.
This first course in the sequence focuses on principles of brain organization, from neurons to circuits to functional networks.