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Dark Psychology (Udemy.com)

Manipulation, Mind Control, Lie Detection, Body Language, Persuasion, Influence, Serial Killers, and Psychopaths

Created by: Vincent Noot

Last updated August 2021

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What you will learn

  • Recognize phobias and fears, and distinguish between irrational and rational ones.
  • Explore your dark side and contemplate human psychology in that light.
  • Understand Machiavellians.
  • Recognize, understand, and handle manipulation in daily situations.
  • Become familiar with the basics of empathy.
  • Comprehend the nature of self-sabotaging behavior, its effects, and prevention methods.
  • Contemplate the background of a conscience, morals, and ethics.
  • Find out what moves a serial killer to perform criminal acts.
  • Gain knowledge about the fundamentals of criminal profiling.
  • Become aware of some of the evilest people in history and their atrocities against humanity.
  • Learn more about the psychology that leads people to sadism and sadomasochism.
  • See what blackmail encompasses and how recognize or avoid it.
  • Learn the basics of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and its controversies.

How it compares

Against the other 1,107 rated Udemy courses in Personal Development on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.1 out of 5higher than 2% of them
  • Reviews880#266 of 1,108 by number of reviews
  • Length26.1 hourslonger than 98% of them
  • Last updatedAugust 2021earlier than 75% of them

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Course Description

This course will teach you everything about the dark side of human psychology. The good, the bad, and especially the ugly elements of the mind will be highlighted in almost every aspect of this series. Human behavior at its worst may be difficult for some people to swallow, but it is all real and part of life. So, if you have the stomach to be confronted with it, go ahead. It's not a course about light psychology. If you like unicorns and rainbows, then it might be better for you to stay in your comfort zone.


Perhaps this course will strip you of a certain naivety you possessed before. Perhaps it will open your eyes to corners of your own mind you never suspected were there. Perhaps you will gain greater insights in what's happening in your family circle, your local supermarket, or your country. Whatever it does, I hope this doesn't make you lose faith in humanity but see things for what they are and how they can be improved. There are many good people. This course focuses on extremities and provides us psychological insights. Influence and persuasion can be innocent tools in daily situations, or they can lead to abuse, manipulation, and exploitation. My intention is to show you both sides to deepen your understanding of the controversial differences and opposition that exist.


This is no small course. Packed together in hours and hours of deep psychological information, you will find yourself questioning underlying intentions, bold but deceiving messages, hidden motives, and limitations of what people do and why. The course is split up into different sections, and each of them will deal with a different topic that somehow relates to evil, deception, lies, manipulation, persuasion, influence, emotions, abuse, personality disorders, and other fascinating and/or lamentable aspects of our short lives on this planet. The topics will vary from individual relationships and self-awareness to crime, marketing, sales, and political agendas on a national and global scale.

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Instructor Details

Vincent Noot

I was born and raised in the Netherlands. I speak Dutch and English fluently, and several other languages well. I am an artist, author, and entrepreneur. Many of my business and writing skills have been put to good use in the publishing industry, as a well as in technical aspects on the internet and for various companies. I am happy to show you what I know about a number of topics, related or unrelated to each other. You're never too young or old to learn, and it begins by simply taking a course or listening to someone with more experience.

My whole life, I've developed a passion for art, for drawing and painting. I've been to art university and have successfully taught hundreds of people how to become a better artist and make an income with it. Some of my video courses will, therefore, refer to various techniques and methods I've learned that can help you paint, draw, or digitally edit images. Other videos courses will refer to money-making skills or marketing tricks I've learned over the years.

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Reviews

4.1

880 ratings on Udemy

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By Gidget Harris on 4/25/2026

It so clear that this instructor has gone way above and beyond what he had to in order to provide us with so much useful information. He's down to earth and treats his students as if he's speaking with friends, and I LOVE the fact that he actually answers questions. I've taken so many courses where the instructor just sticks the course on here and then vanishes never to be seen or heard from again. This is the course and information I've been seeking for years. I'm truly grateful to this instruction for all of the time and hard work he's put into this valuable course.

By Debbie Lavallee on 2/20/2026

Instructor basically reading slides I could read myself and doesn't even know how to pronounce a lot of the words. This causes me to have low trust in his knowledge. I feel like I could teach the course since I know how to read and actually know how to pronounce most of the words. If he were prepared, he would have looked up pronunciation of the words he was not familiar with.

By Ari Z. on 2/10/2026

Amazing course, a lot of useful information for real life scenarios , Vincent is a great instructor and fun to learn with, he is a proof that you don't need a professor in university to teach you these kind of stuff, be aware that this is not a short simple course it's long and with a lot of information and it took me long time to reach the end, but it's worth it.

By TP on 11/20/2025

He can't even pronounce the terms defining the topics he's covering! Seriously? Ma-chee-a-velianism?!?

By Alhassan Sharu on 2/22/2025

I personally learnt a lot about human nature and psychology. Before taking this course, I took an initial course on introduction to psychology which aided me in understanding more on this course. Your course has broaden my knowledge on psychology generally. Thank you and we appreciate.

By Susan Franks on 12/2/2024

Each module clearly explained. Not over long and the quiz at the end measures progress. I thoroughly enjoyed learning Dark Psychology. The tutor has made this course very accessible, even to a total beginner like myself. I will certainly look at other courses from the same tutor in the future. Thank you very much Mr Noot.

By Laura Sweeney, Ed.D. on 12/21/2023

This was a great course that explained psychology very well. In fact, it was much better than I expected, a great investment of my time and money. Not only did it cover dark psychology, but also personality disorders, personality types, scams, marketing psychology, political psychology, narcissists, psychopaths, and more! I can tell that Professor Noot put a lot of effort into this course to organize it well in a logical order. Moreover, the visuals were stimulating, enhancing the message. I have a degree in Child, Youth, and Family Studies, but I would say the Dark Psychology course on Udemy was much better than many courses I took at university. I will look for more Udemy courses by this teacher. I have just enrolled in Professor Noot's art history course.

By Radu-Florin Serbanescu on 10/9/2023

Course goes through a huge body of knowledge which should earn a 5 star rating. But there are a few drawbacks: - a lot of issues discussed not really related to dark psychology - bloatware videos like: The evilest man in history - read from here: https://www.scoopwhoop.com/world/most-evil-people/ - videos ending abruptly, no recap, no bye-bye - examples from movies, series, less from books or personal experience - subjects that were in the core of dark psychology have the same importance as the ones less related - bloopers in some videos that should have been recorded again - sections not well organized, feels like the course was recorded in a rush and all videos recorded once and that's it. - no real mature opinions on issues discusses or insights except for the sales/marketing area - feels like the entire training is read form slides rather than presented - feels like subjects are superficially researched, sometimes from a single source - no handouts or links for further reading or documentation - delicate subjects like suicide or sensitive subjects like crime and criminals and such should start with a clear warning for sensitive people. All in all a good training for people with no experience and little knowledge in this area.

By HENRY KINYUA on 9/14/2022

This was amazingly one of the best courses I have ever taken in my life.You literary touched almost all the modern life issues that any reasonable human would need to know.Thank you so much, I will obviously use this knowledge help myself as well as others.It was a worthy course which I'd definitely recommend to anyone.

By Holly Kline on 2/27/2022

This was a great. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys psychology. This course is unique as it explains the dark part of this world and why some people act the way they do; consequentially this has resulted in discovering more about my Operational PTSD from my Military Service; and what make me unique from even my twin sister, Thank You for creating this course.

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