Free Psychology Courses

This course surveys the core perceptual and cognitive abilities of the human mind and asks how they are implemented in the brain.

Professor Jeremy Wolfe guides listeners through the basic functions of the brain including emotions, memory, cognition, language development, and more.

Take PSYC 110 with Professor Paul Bloom at Yale University and learn the basics about your mind and brain. Bloom is the author of numerous books and popular articles including his most recent book How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like.

Certainly one of the best courses we've added into our new Free Courses Collection is Stanford University Professor Robert Sapolsky's course on "Human Behavioral Biology".

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?

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

From the UCLA Relationship Institute, learn about love by taking this free 18-lecture video course on Intimate Relationships from UCLA professors Benjamin Karney and Thomas Bradbury.

The 92nd Street Y in New York released this six lecture series by social psychologist Erich Fromm from 1965. Listen to over nine hours of Erich Fromm teaching about his ideas on Humanist Psychoanalysis.

Principles and theories of psychology including methodology and brief analysis of major content areas ranging from development, perception, and learning to motivation/emotion, personality, and social processes.

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