Free Psychology Courses

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.

Watch Tal Ben-Shahar's popular Harvard course "Positive Psychology" available for free on YouTube.

How are people affected by overcrowding, traffic congestion, and noise? Why do people litter or vandalize their environments? How do buildings affect their occupants?

Hank Green teaches you psychology!

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 course provides students with the basic tools for evaluating data from studies in the behavioral sciences, particularly psychology.

How, if at all, can we reconcile a certain conception that we have of ourselves as conscious, free, rational, ethical, language using, social and political human beings in a world consisting entirely of mindless, meaningless physical particles?

Highlighting major new developments in the field, this updated edition of Discovering Psychology offers high school and college students, and teachers of psychology at all levels, an overview of historic and current theories of human behavior.

This first course in the sequence focuses on principles of brain organization, from neurons to circuits to functional networks.